As advertising blather becomes the nation's normal idiom, language becomes printed noise.

Pessimism is as American as apple pie - frozen apple pie with a slice of processed cheese.

What is really shocking in America isn't what's done in and by Washington that is illegal by that what is done in and by Washington that's legal.

Like a snail crossing a sidewalk, the Clinton Administration leaves a lengthening trail of slime, this time on America's national honor.

Being elected to Congress is regarded as being sent on a looting raid for one's friends.

All politics takes place on a slippery slope. The most important four words in politics are up to a point.

The euro currency both presupposes and promotes a fiction - that 'Europe' has somehow become, against the wishes of most Europeans, a political rather than a merely geographic expression.