If there's a major foreign policy event, the President gets on TV, the Congress doesn't.

I have to make sure that I make good choices and that if I put my name on it, it's a high-quality endeavor and that I have time to be a human being.

I've become invested with this symbolic power. It really does transcend what I'm actually doing and what I actually deserve.

If the state polls are right, then Mr. Obama will win the Electoral College. If you can't acknowledge that after a day when Mr. Obama leads 19 out of 20 swing-state polls, then you should abandon the pretense that your goal is to inform rather than entertain the public.

Walk rate is probably the area in which a pitcher has the most room to improve, but a rate that high is tough to overcome.

You don't want to treat any one person as oracular.

If you aren't taking a representative sample, you won't get a representative snapshot.