France will always be France no matter what, but America involves striving toward an ideal.

Almost all political campaigns involve falsity and playacting.

In person, George W. Bush is extremely forceful. He has a restless energy when he sits in a chair, and nearly leaps out of it when making certain points.

A flag doesn't cause someone to sit in a prayer meeting for an hour, and then stand up and shoot people.

When my dad was badly weakened by the flu and my mom wanted to call an ambulance to take him to the emergency room, he wouldn't go unless he could shave first and change into a nice shirt and a pair of slacks.

[Donald Trump] campaigned on an enormous tax cut, and he campaigned on a deregulatory agenda.

The debate over troop levels will rage for years; it is...beside the point.