It's not comfortable for me to write about my family. I'm not comfortable writing about me.

But, look, Washington is a town that creates myths for its own existence and its own amusement, and I was a subject of myth, sort of like Grendel in Beowulf - you know, not seen very often but often talked about.

If you look underneath the surface of the Tea Party movement, on the other hand, you will find that it is not sophisticated. It's not like these people have read the economist Friedrich August von Hayek.

But perhaps the most important difference between conservatives and liberals can be found in the area of national security. Conservatives saw the savagery of 9/11 and the attacks and prepared for war; liberals saw the savagery of the 9/11 attacks and wanted to prepare indictments and offer therapy and understanding for our attackers. In the wake of 9/11, conservatives believed it was time to unleash the might and power of the United States military against the Taliban.

If you really want to diminish a candidate, depict him as the foil of his handler. This is as old in American politics as politics itself.

I wish I had the billions of dollars that George Soros has that he has used to fund Democratic causes in the past.

If you make a mistake, clean it up quicker rather than later.