At best, Trumpism will be a more right-wing version of the same old Republican Party.

Activists measure progress against the standard of perfection, or at least the most perfect possible choice. Historians gauge progress against what came before it.

Trump's not the future; his ideas and his coalition are a dead end.

President Obama is so much smarter and a better communicator than members of Congress in either party. The contrast, side by side, is almost ridiculous.

Barack Obama is an intellectual.

I never thought Hillary Clinton was a very good politician.

I'm convinced in 100 years Obama will have an important place in the civic pantheon of American life.

Donald Trump will be a tragedy, a sad joke in American history.

Everything on Twitter is true.

We're not going to be living in a world of abundant coal power in a hundred years.

We're not going to be living in a world where white identity politics is the basis for a major political party.

If we ever forget that we are One Nation Under God, then we will be a nation gone under.

I don't mind growing old. If I have to go before my time, this is how I'll go-- cigarette in one hand, glass of scotch in the other.

Stage actors look down on movie actors, movie actors look down on TV actors, and TV actors look down on... mass murderers.

We gain our ends only with the laws of nature; we control her only by understanding her laws.

The higher a man's conception of God, the better will he know Him. And the better he knows God, the nearer will he draw to Him.

Do not listen to those who weep and complain, for their disease is contagious.

I have an acquired taste for language, yet it is seldom an actual focus of mine.

One of the major goals of health insurance reform is to bring down the cost.

I never saw a mob rush across town to do a good deed.

I like what Oliver Lakes does on the saxophone. The saxophone comes pretty close to the sound of the human voice and when Oliver plays with other sax players, it's like a dialogue.