The core of the concept of a bribe is an inducement improperly influencing the performance of a public function meant to be gratuitously exercised.

The 2008 election settled nothing, not even for a while. Our national politics are reflecting what appears to be going on geologically, on the bottom of the oceans and beneath the crust of the Earth: the tectonic plates are moving.

The Democratic Party's complete obeisance to [the abortion] lobby makes Democrats look bought, frightened and craven.

Naps are nature's way of reminding you that life is nice, like a beautiful swinging hammock strung between birth and infinity.

Sincerity and competence is a strong combination. In politics, it is everything.

My generation, faced as it grew with a choice between religious belief and existential despair, chose marijuana. Now we are in our Cabernet stage.

You don't have to be old in America to say of a world you lived in: 'that world is gone.'