Feeling good about government is like looking on the bright side of any catastrophe. When you quit looking on the bright side, the catastrophe is still there.

I don't watch much television. Yeah, that's pretty funny. I don't know where The Daily Show stand politically, do you?

The question nowadays is not what makes government work. The question is how do we make it stop.

We should never hesitate to listen to a fool about life because life is pretty foolish as far as I can tell.

Journalists aren't supposed to praise things. It's a violation of work rules almost as serious as buying drinks with our own money or absolving the CIA of something.

I'm a rather decisive type.

Good manners are a combination of intelligence, education, taste and style mixed together so that you don't need any of those things.