Politics is its own world. It is a court and if the king's eye lights on you, you are a powerful figure. If the king's eye wanders elsewhere, you are out, whatever your title.

Sibling relationships are complicated. All family relationships are. Look at Hamlet.

I write in the most distressingly slow way in terms of punctuation and grammar.

Politics is its own world. It is a court and if the king's eye lights on you, you are a powerful figure. If the king's eye wanders elsewhere, you are out, whatever your title.

Nobody has a magic lamp which can tell you in advance whether what you say will be effective in persuading an audience.

My mother was very protective of her four boys.

America was born out of a desire for self-determination, a longing for the human dignity that only independence can bring.