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

This is part of the involuntary bargain we make with the world just by being alive. We get to experiences the splendor of nature, the beauty of art, the balm of love and the sheer joy of existence, always with the knowledge that illness, injury, natural disaster, or pure evil can end it in an instant for ourselves or someone we love.

If Obama's vision of the public sector is socialism, then so too were the visions of Theodore Roosevelt, Franklin Roosevelt, Harry Truman, Dwight Eisenhower, John Kennedy, Lyndon Johnson, and Richard Nixon.

There is no such thing as political science, but there are tenancies so strong that they might as well be called laws of nature.

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

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

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