Choose your words meticulously and then let them rumble up from some deep furnace of conviction.

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

Who besides guys like me are part of the reality-based community?

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

Every person has their pantheon - the Bible, Hollywood, Shakespeare - their way of understanding the world.

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

There are many instances in which those at the uppermost levels of the White House were feeling the President [Barack Obama] was not fully informed of the flow of events and, in some cases, where policies were going in the White House.