I don't have to deal with the issues of the daily news cycle.

[Barack Obama] says at one point, "[Jimmy] Carter, [Bill] Clinton and I suffer from," what he called, "the policy wonk's disease."

Confidence is the public face of competence.

Many years later, a psychiatrist friend of mine said something to us. He said, "Respect denial." It's a powerful force.

For any thinking person, it (perpetual happiness) is untenable. If you're a thinking person, your upbeat sometimes, said sometimes.

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

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