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.

A little known area often defines the fortunes of leaders -- management skills.

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

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.

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.

[Barack Obama] says that he thinks America felt better, more confident, because Washington was not simply in a gridlock, in stasis, where nothing was being done. And he talks about that as a positive.

By virtue of some of the ways the game is played, in terms of message discipline, in terms of access for reporters, and especially in the way that sources and subjects, especially famous subjects, treat the media, almost by default there's more news that's falling into books.