The best time to listen to a politician is when he's on a stump on a street corner in the rain late at night when he's exhausted. Then he doesn't lie.

With the end of the nominating process, American politics leaves logic behind.

The American dream is not over. America is an adventure.

Every American election summons the individual voter to weigh the past against the future.

The President's decisions make the weather, and if he is great enough, change the climate, too.

Always inflation comes gradually; is recognized too late; and can be cured only by ruthless political surgery, which, if delayed too long, proves futile.

Quality in a classical Greek sense is how to live with grace and intelligence, with bravery and mercy.