Why, listening to Obama talk about his economic triumphs over the last three years might make you want to move to the country he was describing. Too bad that country exists primarily in his own head.

Every great political campaign rewrites the rules; devising a new way to win is what gives campaigns a comparative advantage against their foes.

Conservatives must avoid the siren song of schism, or all is lost.

Comedians and impressionists used to be two different showbiz animals entirely, but now there's no such thing as a comedian who doesn't do impressions.

Pop culture is a reflection of social change, not a cause of social change.

There's no light at the end of the tunnel in the Republican message, no promise of better things to come. There's only the present stagnation, followed by a slow decline.

I was wholeheartedly attracted to the conservative atmosphere that permeated the city of Washington.

I look at 'The New York Review of Books.' It's what it has been for 35 or 40 years, which is a highly sophisticated vehicle for anti-American self-hatred.

While negativity is politically useful, it is also demoralizing unless it is accompanied - and to some extent overshadowed - by elevated and inspiring ideas about the American future.

Your race and gender don't change, but you can choose to change your political affiliation at will.

The problem is that borrowing money to pay back more borrowed money that will oblige you in the future to borrow even more money doesn't sound kosher. Because it isn't.

Reader one moment stop and think, That I am in eternity and you are on the brink.

What can I say? I'm obsessed. And as we all know obsessed girls can't be held responsible for our actions.

If you want to rock the Vote, You have to Rock the Boat.

Through woods and mountain passes The winds, like anthems, roll.

I don't care what people come at me with. People have come at me with everything you could imagine. I could care less about that.

Sometimes, you just get a label and it sticks.

Humility about how little I know has encouraged me to listen more carefully and more wisely.

We of the craft are all crazy.

There are a hundred paths through the world that are easier than loving. But who wants easier?

Exact information about the functional significance of the deep sections of the brain is only obtained by working through the brain histologically in serial section.