If you look at the people who are advising Rudy Giuliani it turns out that they seem to be all the people who were too insane or too extremist to even get on the George W. Bush team.

Success can be built on a strong relationship between a lobbyist and a single, powerful lawmaker.

I think of us as journalists; the medium we work in is blogging.

With Jack Abramoff under indictment, a number of readers have suggested that now he might flip and try to offer the feds some figures higher up the food-chain.

The further you get from power, the closer you come to the truth.

The death of honest and courageous a reporter leaves America a little more vulnerable.

One of the failings of ideologues is their inability to see that everyone else isn't necessarily an ideologue like them.

There's a difference, though, between being a political appointee and putting a political operative in charge of a U.S. attorney's office.

For David Halberstam journalism was a calling, not a job. You couldn't fire him and he wouldn't quit.

Presently the newly awakened psychology will gradually accomplish what pure religious devotion might have done: throw out Paul, and let Jesus in!

Secrets are generally terrible. Beauty is not hidden--only ugliness and deformity.

Our job is...To listen more than we speak.To follow more than we lead.To love more than we receive.To forgive more than we've been forgiven.To remember more than we forget.

The pumpkin is a uniquely American plant, widely regarded as one of the most magical plants in all the world.

I am the Mud Hut I Grew Upon

There's no, 'Oh my God, somebody else is gonna come back and take my spot.' I wanna have a spot that's my spot, that nobody can take away, because nobody else is me.

Theres no such thing as a free lunch, at least on the karmic level.

We're all just facilitators. The real business is done by readers.

Invention is the mother of necessities.

Faction seldom leaves a man honest, however it might find him.