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.

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.

The media has become more forceful, has begun to recognize its traditional historic role and act on it, and truth is infectious.

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

The President [Barack Obama], I think if you look at it from his shoes, you know, was facing a very difficult situation where he had to own Washington, tame New York, save a collapsing economy, with a collapsed financial system. He moved, I think, to a team that he felt was tried and true, in terms of dealing with financial crisis. That was his decision.

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

Message matters. Message matters almost as much as actions.