The President, who really had been mostly managing his one-man Barack Obama narrative and journey his whole life, without executive experience, certainly - he's not a governor. Some governors, of course, they have experience in executing power, which is something fairly unique, actually, in government. And he has, neither, a set of nourishing experiences.

Al-Qaeda has a kind of loose, almost entrepreneurial structure with lots of cells in various countries that are semi-independent.

The idea that our son would be like Raymond Babbitt was a shocking reordering of everything. And something we couldn't quite fathom, really.

It is one thing to rouse the passion of a people, and quite another to lead them.

The informed, unmanaged question. That's the most dangerous thing at a press conference anywhere.

The fact is, most journalists I know are not particularly political. They move around a lot.

You try to hold on to some notions you might have had before, that this will somehow work out, this is a spell that will lift or be broken.