Television is one of the most fickle businesses that there are, you are in favour one minute and out the next.

History doesn't turn on a dime; it turns on a plugged nickel.

I got into writing and thinking about politics because I was told there would be no math.

Protestations of indifference to higher office are hard to take seriously when the 'non-candidate' is busily engaged in testing the waters.

I grew up in New York City, where we played highly unorganized sports: stick ball, stoop ball, and the occasional game of baseball with no adult supervision.

In every debate, whatever the format, whatever the questions, there is one and only one way to identify the winner: Who commands the room? Who drives the narrative? Who is in charge?

Victory has 1,000 fathers; defeat has 1,000 kibitzers.