John Quotes
Ultimately I think what people care about, particularly on an issue like Social Security, is not really what's right and what's left but what's right and what's wrong.
If medicine was practiced in 1965 the way it's practiced today, there's no question that prescriptions would have been included in Medicare.
America is great not because it's a team. America is great because it is a nation whose founding documents elevated the rights of the individual.
Some candidates need to say provocative things that make noise to break through the media muffle and get themselves noticed.
Romney is a good, intelligent, extraordinarily generous man who put on a great fight. But he didn't understand the country or the people he sought to lead, and that is why he lost.
Romney is right that the Obama vision is too centered on government. But his is too centered on the promotion of business and wealth creation at the expense of everything else.
Obama's coalition would have consigned him to the political margins as little as 12 years ago, but the nation's demographic changes are moving far more quickly than most Republicans anticipated.
This has always been the way of presidential politics. The president rises above the fray while his surrogates go on the attack. They throw the spears and fling the mud; he sits upon the throne.
Newt Gingrich never received more than 100,000 votes in his life. He'll never be president.
Obama's presidency hasn't been dedicated to achieving economic growth in the short term, or about creating jobs.
I've worked as someone's deputy, and now it's time for me to run something. It's time for me to run my own shop.
The 2004 presidential election that saw George W. Bush win with 51 percent of the vote was the last one Republicans will ever win with the overwhelmingly white and male coalition they have now.
The classic rule of thumb is that if you are an intellectual ideological magazine, you do better in opposition than you do if your views are reflected by people in power.
The sad truth is that you can have peace processes all you like, but if one side is committed to war, then it's war.
The thing is, Obama is right that it would be a calamity for the government to default on its debt by not meeting its obligations. Such a thing has never happened and can't be allowed to happen.
In 2013, there were 6,261 black homicide victims in the US — almost all killed by black civilians.
The great mystery is why robots come off so well in science-fiction films when the human characters are often so astoundingly wooden.
For Obama to save himself, he should be thinking about the example of an unlikely Republican predecessor: Richard Nixon.
She needs to seem tough, and whatever Hillary's weaknesses, tough is a pretty good word to describe her.
The exit polls suggest that after a relatively disappointing first term, Obama managed to reassemble almost all of his 2008 electorate.
Is victory sweet because your side wins - or is it really because the other side loses?
Why, listening to Obama talk about his economic triumphs over the last three years might make you want to move to the country he was describing. Too bad that country exists primarily in his own head.
When Obama was inaugurated, he and his team had an insight - though whether the insight was conscious or not I don't know. But it was this: The TARP $700 billion price tag was a new kind of model.
Imagine his delight after it 'leaked' that he will propose raising taxes on the wealthy by $320 billion over the next 10 years, including increases to the capital gains and inheritance taxes.
By keeping most tax rates at present levels, Obama and the Democrats will claim that they have championed tax cuts for the middle class.
Unquestionably, American political rhetoric can be repugnant, and the Right can certainly be as guilty as the Left.
Many people crave security and stability rather than risk-taking, and that doesn't make them any less American. They are the workers rather than the job creators, and all societies need both.
Electoral contests have nothing but polls, which is why people have grown so obsessed with them; we're desperate for an objective rendering of what is happening and what may happen.
All non-incumbent campaigns promise hope and change, but Obama took the promise to a new level of absurdity. He suggested that a vote for him would literally transform the Earth.
We wanted to be as expansive as possible to make sure we didn't preclude some good ideas.
The Australian film industry has recognised Tropfest as a place to nurture young talent. It's a stepping stone between amateur and professional.
Artists need support, time and money to develop their ideas, and if people rip stuff off, you don't have to be that brilliant to figure out that you're ultimately going to affect the end product.
Our children were mostly brought up and educated in the Churchill suburb east of Pittsburgh. Each summer, we took them back to England for an extended period.
I have had many opportunities to visit universities all over the world in the past 50 years.
I was approaching the age of 40 with a substantial publication record, but had not yet held any position in a chemistry department.
It is more important to me to make art that is an honest expression of my life than it is to make pictures people think are well drawn
Growth is always a gradual process, a bridge slowly crossed and not a corner sharply turned.