This is the Democratic paradox: You want so much to run America and yet you seem not so fond of Americans.

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

The Democratic Party is that amazing thing, out of power for six years and yet exhausted. They're pale, tired, and unready. Too bad, since it's their job to be an alternative, not an embarrassment.

Speeches are more important in politics than talking points, as a rule, and are better remembered.

Now he is a statesman, when what he really wants is to be what most reporters are, adult delinquents.

Boundaries aren't all bad. That's why there are walls around mental institutions.

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