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

For any thinking person, it (perpetual happiness) is untenable. If you're a thinking person, your upbeat sometimes, said sometimes.

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

I've been a reporter for 20 years, and I don't ever get things wrong. That's important in terms of my professional status.

All of the leading terrorism experts are clear on one thing: that in terms of protecting America, we are almost never going to know a place or a time of an attack.

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.