Military guys are rarely as smart as they think they are, and they've never gotten over the fact that civilians run the military.

IT is an astonishing thing that historians will look back and puzzle over, that in the 21st century, American women were such hunted creatures. Even as Republicans try to wrestle women into chastity belts, the Vatican is trying to muzzle American nuns.

The minute you settle for less than you deserve, you get even less than you settled for.

It takes a lot of adrenaline and fear to make me actually write.

F.D.R. achieved greatness not by means of imposing his temperament and intellect on the world but by reacting to what the world threw at him.

Reagan didn't socialize with the press. He spent his evenings with Nancy, watching TV with dinner trays. But he knew that to transcend, you can't condescend.

Americans want to be protected, but not at the cost of vitiating the values that make us Americans.