In dealing with Syria's dictator...only force counts. No cease-fire was attainable in Lebanon until the 16-inch guns of the battleship New Jersey started shelling Syria's proxies; suddenly, sweet reason prevailed in Damascus.

By elevating your reading, you will improve your writing or at least tickle your thinking.

Decide on some imperfect Somebody and you will win, because the truest truism in politics is: You can't beat Somebody with Nobody.

The most successful column is one that causes the reader to throw down the paper in a peak of fit.

You don't want lopsided government. You don't want one side running roughshod over the other.

To be accused of 'channeling' is to be dismissed as a ventriloquist's live dummy, derogated at not having a mind of one's own.

The first ladyship is the only federal office in which the holder can neither be fired nor impeached.