The perfect Christmas gift for a sportscaster, as all fans of sports clichés know, is a scoreless tie.

Gridlock is great. My motto is, 'Don't just do something. Stand there.'

To communicate, put your words in order; give them a purpose; use them to persuade, to instruct, to discover, to seduce.

One difference between French appeasement and American appeasement is that France pays ransom in cash and gets its hostages back while the United States pays ransom in arms and gets additional hostages taken.

Is sloppiness in speech caused by ignorance or apathy? I don't know and I don't care.

... it's Bush's baby, even if he shares its popularization with Gorbachev. Forget the Hitler 'new order' root; F.D.R. used the phrase earlier.

Nobody stands taller than those willing to stand corrected.