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

By trying to do too much, you risk not doing enough.

one way to keep people close to you is by not giving them enough. ... with people who give a lot of themselves, you sometimes lean back - but with people who give little you often lean forward, as if they're a spigot in the desert and you're the empty cup. It is the tropism of deprivation: We lean toward those who do not give.

[democrats] have become the party of snobs. You have become the party of Americans who think they're better than other Americans.

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

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.

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