I know enough about European politics to know you've got a lot of crazy people who make their way onto the ballot.

The difficulty for Mr. Obama will be when the public sees where his decisions lead - higher inflation, higher interest rates, higher taxes, sluggish growth, and a jobless recovery.

As people do better, they start voting like Republicans - unless they have too much education and vote Democratic, which proves there can be too much of a good thing.

At the core, we are dealing with two parties that have fundamentally different views of the world.

I think it's dawning on some Democrats that obstructing the Patriot Act, like they've been obstructing everything else, is bad for them politically.

You may end up with a different math, but you're entitled to your math. I'm entitled to the math.

If we do with Latinos what we did with African-Americans, Republicans and conservatives will be doomed.

What Mr. Obama wants in a nominee isn't really 'empathy' and 'understanding.' He wants a liberal, activist Supreme Court justice.

If you really want to diminish a candidate, depict him as the foil of his handler. This is as old in American politics as politics itself.

For a person who promised hope and civility in politics, Mr. Obama has shown a borderline obsessiveness in blaming Mr. Bush.

Mr. Obama has an ingenious approach to job losses: He describes them as job gains.

She wasn’t sure if she even needed him anymore and the thought made her sad. In consolation, she offered him a kind smile and reached for his dependable hand.

Confidence is not about being self-centered. It's about being emotionally centered, so you can better see other people.

What's in a view? The world, by any other, would remain just as it is, just as wonderful :-)

People with BPD are like people with third degree burns over 90% of their bodies. Lacking emotional skin, they feel agony at the slightest touch or movement.

I spent a college semester in a small town in Italy - and that is where I truly tasted food for the first time.

Europe has a long and tragic history of mostly domestic terrorism.

We need a dramatic improvement in the way we train people who get displaced.

Jobs mean freedom for workers to support their families.

I look on that paper (the Constitution) as the most fatal plan that could possibly be conceived to enslave a free people.

The ability to create and to control the tension of battle is perhaps the principal attainment of the great player.