The member of Congress who is not making a career of politics looks quite differently at the world.

With nearly two years remaining in his presidency, George W. Bush is alone. In half a century, I have not seen a president so isolated from his own party in Congress - not Jimmy Carter, not even Richard Nixon as he faced impeachment. Republicans in Congress do not trust their president to protect them.

I was kind of feeling a spiritual need all those years. My wife Geraldine and I went to an Episcopalian Church for a while. Oh, it just seemed very political to me that a guy so liberal was talking about opposing the war in Vietnam and I didn't want to hear that when I went to church. I wanted something spiritual.

CNN canceled all the shows I was on. They're going in a different direction, but that's their privilege. They own the business.

It is up to the government to keep the government's secrets.

It is hard to write about politicians, see them at such close range, and still think of any of them as heroes.

The member of Congress who is not making a career of politics looks quite differently at the world.