[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.

If you write something the White House doesn't like, they take you in and say, 'If you ever write something like you did today, nobody from the White House will ever talk to you again

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.

Confidence is the public face of competence.

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

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

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