Way down deep the American people are afraid of an entangling relationship between formal religions - or whole bodies of religious belief - and government.

Every time I've done something that doesn't feel right, it's ended up not being right.

For too many, the dream of economic mobility has been replaced with a nightmare of economic stagnation.

The mugger who is arrested is back on the street before the police officer, but the person mugged may not be back on the street for a long time, if ever.

It's a Little Leaguers game that major leaguers play extraordinarily well, a game that excites us throughout adulthood. The crack of the bat and the scent of the horsehide on leather bring back our own memories that have been washed away with the sweat and tears of summers long gone...even as the setting sun pushes the shadows past home plate.

We are disgusted by the things that we desire, and we desire what disgusts us.

I somehow got this reputation of diddling and dithering. I don't remember dithering at all.