Journalistic conventions make it hard for reporters to deal with a big, complicated lie.

It wouldn't be fair to say that conservatives cherish property the way liberals cherish equality. But it would be fair to say that the takings clause is the conservatives recipe for judicial activism just as they say liberals have misused the equal protection clause.

In 1977, at least, he wished to have people believe that he shared and was proud of an attitude toward women that is not acceptable in a politician. In 2003, all he has said is that he doesn't remember the interview.

In any event, the proper question isn't what a journalist thinks is relevant but what his or her audience thinks is relevant. Denying people information they would find useful because you think they shouldn't find it useful is censorship, not journalism.

If hypocrisy is the tribute vice pays to virtue, piousness is virtue paying tribute to itself.

I have a saying: the scandal isn't what's illegal, the scandal is what's legal.

Conservatives and liberals alike have been waiting for this moment for a third of a century.