On immigration, there are a lot of hurdles before anything arrives at the White House.

Act right all the time, because someone's always watching.

In the media universe we're in, where there are people screaming on one end, there is no problem at all with having a little bit of extra politeness.

Barack Obama didn't get elected president, would never have been elected president, had he decided to run as a black candidate. In order to reach the broadest number of people you have to speak to their interests as broadly as you can.

Did I say that the President's entire job is image management? Of course not.

All of our panelists are deeply engaged in the topics at hand, so that leaves me free to convene a little dinner party, sans alcohol, and invite the rest of America to listen in.

Even marginal progress could be affected by investigations in Little Rock and in Washington.