Like a cowboy saddling a bucking stallion, Republican leaders tried to tame the Tea Party while riding it to victories.

At the start of his second term, one wonders less about Obama's fitness than his willingness: Why doesn't he do more to build and maintain the relationships required to govern in era of polarization?

It's a deft trick to turn American exceptionalism into an exceptional political tactic.

According to a Public Policy Polling survey, most Americans find lice and colonoscopies more appealing than Capitol Hill.

With gridlock the norm, Congress's approval rating is below 10 percent and the public has lost faith in its national leadership.

Blending hard-bitten realism with long-view optimism, Obama said that every 20 or 30 years brings a new cycle of pessimism in America.

Although we were never pals and occasionally butted heads, my relationship with Clinton and his wife, Hillary, made me a better journalist.

President George W. Bush won reelection in 2004 largely because he was seen as comfortable in his own skin, while rival John Kerry was viewed as a flip-flopping opportunist.

Obama might do well to remember that his fast rise from the Illinois state Senate was due in large part to an uncanny ability to make friends and find mentors.

I'm hearing echoes of Bill Clinton, circa 1996, in President Obama's reelection rhetoric.

For a man who has compared himself to Theodore Roosevelt and the nation's challenges to those of the Gilded Age, Obama put forward a tepid agenda.

The universe is a big place, perhaps the biggest.

Always look at the message, not the messenger!”The Little People, The Little People Journey into the Mystic Sea

Nothing stings quite like an unanswered text message.

How southern belle of her.

There's a very wild side to me, but it's calming down.

The nice thing about solo is I don't have to coordinate with anyone else's schedule, since it's hard for me just to have a free 15 minutes here and there.

I guess funny people are attracted to funny people, and then you get comedy marriages.

The credulity of dupes is as inexhaustible as the invention of knaves.

I need Harry Potter like a grindylow needs water.

It wasn't a deliberate decision to become a poet. It was something I found myself doing - and loving. Language became an addiction.