George W. Bush, 43rd president of the United States, became the first incumbent president to increase his majority in both the Senate and the House and to increase his own vote (by over 3.5 million) since Franklin D. Roosevelt, political genius of the 20th century, in 1936.

The Democrats often seem like the Not Republican Party, no more and no less.

Candor is a compliment; it implies equality. It's how true friends talk.

Humor is the shock absorber of life; it helps us take the blows.

I think miracles exist in part as gifts and in part as clues that there is something beyond the flat world we see.

The biggest improvement in the flow of information in America in our lifetimes is that no single group controls the news anymore.

Speeches are not magic and there is no great speech without great policy.