Mr. Obama has an ingenious approach to job losses: He describes them as job gains.

I mean, if you have to wake up in the morning to be validated by the editorial page of the New York Times, you got a pretty sorry existence.

I would have strong opinions and be prepared to argue my case, but if you talk to my colleagues, I think you'd find they consider me the jokester, the informal mayor of the West Wing.

I hate to sound sort of diffident about it but it strikes me that a lot of people on the right have got active lives and are doing other things.

[T]he economy remains the top issue for the electorate.

I'm not a journalist. I'm a pundit. I'm a commentator, I'm somebody with an opinion.

The definition of relationships ought to be left up to the states and that proper protections can be put in place for the right to visit in the hospital or the right to inherit or other legal contractual questions like that.