Can't disagree with the need for a grasp of history.

I'm not really good at being predictive, so I guess I'm willing to be surprised.

Folks who are getting their strokes in the South are not as unhappy with Howard Dean. You don't see anybody starting any movement to get him out of office.

I actually think agendas are more often found in State of the Union speeches than in inaugural speeches.

One of the things that Africa needs, everybody seems to agree, is some measure of debt relief.

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

If you take the conflicts we are used to dealing with, race over the years in America, and you combine that with the desire or aspiration to political power or taking power from other people, which is what politics is all about, you end up with a lot more friction than you would normally see with just straight-ahead politics.