The liberal media were never that powerful, and the whole thing was often used as an excuse by conservatives for conservative failures.

I am on the whole a defender of the current, despite being a conservative. I mean, I think things are better than when I was younger.

All defense secretaries in wartime have, needless to say, made misjudgments.

I don't think you want political parties that are entirely driven by some extremely doctrinal ideology.

I personally - if I were designing the tax code - would have a tax code in which Mitt Romney paid more than 13 percent, given what I know about the kind of investments he made money from.

The media claimed to be non-partisan, centrist. It's not been that way for a lot of history.

Fox gets two million viewers a night, and MSNBC gets one. It's four million people, five million people, and 130 million people are going to vote. There are an awful lot of voters, and an awful lot of politically engaged, intelligent people who are not hanging on whatever happens on Bill O'Reilly or Rachel Maddow.