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

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

The substance of faith is a hope in the unseen.

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.

[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.

To try to be authentic these days, to ask questions of the people in power - it's difficult. This administration has evolved new techniques to handle people like me. Their strategy, in a word, is simple: ignore them.

The informed, unmanaged question. That's the most dangerous thing at a press conference anywhere.