When you run for president of the United States, everybody does the same thing in the campaign-they talk about veterans, how much they admire them, how grateful they are.

It's tempting to remember that the Tea Party had a peak and then the Republican Party establishment sort of beat it back down. And so these things are won in a day.

When you run for president of the United States, everybody does the same thing in the campaign-they talk about veterans, how much they admire them, how grateful they are.

When you think of pristine preservation of America, you immediately think of Tulsa and Oklahoma.

As long as Republicans won't - won't raise taxes and as long as Democrats won't in any way make entitlements based on need, rather than just across the board, I really think that we're doomed to this deadlock.

Politics is a contact sport - a question of accepting an elbow or two.

They're still a subject beholden to special interests, but at least they have a national constituency. At least they have to think about national majorities.