The winner's margin of victory also matters. If it's a squeaker, that will make the lessons learned for both parties much murkier.

Republicans think that [Ted] Cruz would be like Barry Goldwater. He'd lose in a landslide and pull the party down with him. They'd lose Senate and House seats.

As one person said to me , Republicans know [Donald] Trump is a stain on their party.

Obama's even keel sometimes comes across as aloof or even cold.

For a long time, many Republicans thought if they just took two aspirin and laid down, [Donald] Trump would go away.

Donald Trump's staffing up a pretty traditional, very conservative Republican government, not a populist outsider government, at least not yet.

Romney still enjoys the Republicans' traditional advantage among voters who are veterans, but the Obama campaign is confident it can chip away at that.

While Romney has an overall deficit with women voters, his biggest disadvantage is with college educated women - wherever they work, at home, in an office, a store or a factory.

Ted Cruz is a small-government conservative.

The GOP establishment, in particular, is facing a pick-your-poison kind of decision. Many establishment Republicans dislike [Ted] Cruz personally. He has no Senate endorsements.

Republicans like Trent Lott, saying [Donald] Trump would be more flexible [then Ted Cruz].

Cleanliness begins with the love for godliness

Confused? Confusion is good. It’s an excellent place to learn something new from.

How would you rather die?" she snapped. "Hiding under your bed or riding Thunder Mountain?

In general, the art of government consists of taking as much money as possible from one class of citizens to give to another.

My songs have always been frustrating themes, relationships that I've had. And now that I'm in love, I expect it to be really happy, or at least there won't be half as much anger as there was.

We usually get what we anticipate.

Even on education, his one accomplishment, the Leave No Child Behind Act, and he has left it unfunded.

As long as you've got slightly more perception than the average wrapped loaf, you could invent something.

The philosophy of the wisest man that ever existed, is mainly derived from the act of introspection.

What can be explained by the assumption of fewer things is vainly explained by the assumption of more things.