You don't overturn a previous court's decisions lightly and I think most Americans are somewhere in the middle on abortion and there's not going to be a revolution here at all.

To 'know your place' is a good idea in politics. That is not to say 'stay in your place' or 'hang on to your place', because ambition or boredom may dictate upward or downward mobility, but a sense of place - a feel for one's own position in the control room-is useful in gauging what you should try to do.

If America cannot win a war in a week, it begins negotiating with itself.

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

I could get a better education interviewing John Steinbeck than talking to an English professor about novels.

Dangling punch lines to forgotten stories remain in the language like the smile of the Cheshire cat.

A dependent clause is like a dependent child: incapable of standing on its own but able to cause a lot of trouble.