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.

[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.

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.

Reaching out to any fellow ghetto kids is an act he puts in the same category as doing drugs: the initial rush of warmth and euphoria puts you on a path to ruin.

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.

Who besides guys like me are part of the reality-based community?