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.

We journalists are never so idiotic as when we analyze things that we shouldn't be analyzing.

The two-war strategy was a product of the cold war, when we had to have the ability to fight the Russians on the plains of Europe and fight the Chinese on the Korean peninsula at the same time. That costs an awful lot of money.

You know, larger-than-life politicians have larger-than-life strengths and larger-than-life weaknesses.

You can't get all of your news from Jon Stewart, especially since it's a comedy show.

I came to political consciousness with John F. Kennedy's magnificent 1961 Inaugural Address. It seemed the start of something fresh and exciting, and it was.

I've been described as a grizzled political veteran.