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

Rapid change, accommodating it can be one of the great human capacities. But living through it can be the stuff of stress and often suffering.

I think that [Barack Obama] does say something that's - that is telling on that score, when he talks about the [George W.] Bush tax cuts and the swap he makes after the midterm elections, which is he doesn't agree with the Bush tax cuts.

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

I absolutely reject that idea that the press is liberal and what it does is liberal. In my view, it's like accusing a doctor of malpractice or a lawyer of malfeasance.

Civilizations rise and fall on confidence. America had figured out a way to borrow money to manufacture it.

To try to be authentic these days, to ask questions of the people in power - it's difficult. This administration has evolved new techniques to handle people like me. Their strategy, in a word, is simple: ignore them.