Dictating to dictators doesn't work; they are congenitally delusional about their own indispensability.

What do you do in a novel? You take recognizable characters from your own life, and you fantasize about what they're really like.

You know, larger than life is always better than smaller than life in politicians. And, you know, God save us from mediocrities.

I believe, I believe that the people who voted in those primaries for Donald Trump were at least helping him along with his message of hate toward immigrants, toward Muslims.

Bush the Elder's stature as president grows with every passing year. He was the finest foreign policy president I've ever covered and a man who defied his party on tax increases while imposing budget restrictions on the Democrats.

Dictating to dictators doesn't work; they are congenitally delusional about their own indispensability.

Bush promised a foreign policy of humility and a domestic policy of compassion. He has given us a foreign policy of arrogance and a domestic policy that is cynical, myopic and cruel.