A president cannot sit on his hands and be seen as passive in the face of ruthless action by a foreign dictator.
After one party loses two elections in a row, there's sort of blood in the water.
How many State of the Union addresses do people remember? They don't resonate that way.
Flattery was one of Kissinger's principal tools in winning over Nixon, and a tool he employed shamelessly.
Full federal funding for presidential libraries should bring with it new rules of control over papers and artifacts.
Obama is cutting back on the idea that we're going to have Jeffersonian democracy in Pakistan or anywhere else.
It's always valuable for someone running for president... to have as much bipartisan support as possible.
Presidential aspirants reach for the highest office to satisfy some yearning for greatness or even immortality.
A mother takes twenty years to make a man of her boy, and another woman makes a fool of him in twenty minutes.
But boy, right away it is fun to play around with the Paintbox program.
I was a dozy boy; I'd like to have been like James Dean, but I was more Arthur Askey - pathetically rebellious in a cheeky, chappy sort of way.
Because," said a boy. "Because why?" asked a young girl. "Because I love you.
I sometimes suspect that half our difficulties are imaginary and that if we kept quiet about them they would disappear.
Most remarks that are worth making are commonplace remarks. The things that makes them worth saying is that we really mean them.
I had long ago become a creation, a public image made to be consumed, piled on top of a precarious shell of a little boy wanting to be loved.
So this had been all I wanted, a boy who understood how I felt. Now, though, I sometimes wished for more.
I played trumpet in school once because I joined band because a cute boy played trumpet too. And I was really bad at trumpet.
When I was a child, I wanted to raise horses in Wyoming or be a cabin boy on a pirate ship.
The beginning of my career was so brilliant. It wasn't until ten years later that I went, 'Oh, that was a big, fat fluke and, boy, was I ever lucky.'
How long you live is less important than how healthy you are along the way.
Exercise is roughly the only equivalent of a fountain of youth that exists today, and it's free to everyone.
