The White House press corps isn't there at a press briefing. It's not... They're not news gatherers there. There really isn't any media.

Do you know we have more acreage of forest land in the United States today than we did at the time the Constitution was written?

"Just give your life to us and stop worrying about things," is what Obama's message is, and people don't want to do that.

Collective solutions to individual problems is very seductive. It's how Obama gets elected, by the way.

To somebody like Obama, substantive opposition is not tolerable. The objective is to eliminate all opposition - be it a political party, be it media, or what have you.

Politics is not for sissies.

The Republican Party was just as scared of the Tea Party as the Democrats were. We just didn't know it at the time.