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

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

The fact is that in a way, journalists become a kind of default in the system when you don't have substantive two-party back-and-forth inside of the government.

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.

[Barack Obama] says at one point, "[Jimmy] Carter, [Bill] Clinton and I suffer from," what he called, "the policy wonk's disease."

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.

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