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.

I think Hillary Clinton's a very clever politician but she would be too easy to stereotype the way John Kerry was.

Since Hillary Clinton is the first time we've had a woman who was a serious contender for president, it's been an adjustment to watch her more changeable looks, and to see the lengths she goes to get the right lighting and to make the right wardrobe choices. Her campaign is devising strategies to humanize her and make her seem more warm and maternal.

I think the evangelicals think they're in a holy war now.

The Mormons even baptized Anne Frank. It took Ernest Michel, then chairman of the American Gathering of Jewish Holocaust Survivors, three years to get Mormons to agree to stop proxy-baptizing Holocaust victims.

Just because digital technology makes connecting possible doesn't mean you're actually reaching people.

[On journalists:] We are a noisy, imperfect lot, struggling to scribble what has been called the first draft of history.