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

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

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.

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

The substance of faith is a hope in the unseen.

When you get people standing up saying, 'I'm going to just tell the truth; what do we have to fear?,' it encourages others, and it creates a counterresponse.

Younger colleagues tended to draw untested self-confidence from their bonuses and prestigious degrees.