Somebody is going to have to do fancy footwork to make sure Elizabeth and John Edwards get their prime-time shot .

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

Describing the jury in the OJ Simpson murder trial: These people have served a longer sentence than some people who have committed murder.

More things in politics happen by accident or exhaustion than happen by conspiracy.

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

As a general proposition, campaigns do not linger on the vice presidential nominee. When they have, it's always meant very bad news for the ticket. Think of Spiro Agnew's foot-in-mouth disease; Tom Eagleton's medical history; the real estate holdings of Geraldine Ferraro's husband; the unbearable lightness of Dan Quayle; Sarah Palin's reading list.

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