Wire-walking in performance is one thing - I never fell, of course. If I had, I wouldn't be here talking about it.
Holidays in general breed unrealistic expectations. The minute you start wondering, 'is it going to be wonderful enough?,' it never will be.
Racial segregation in the South not only separated the races, but it separated the South from the rest of the country.
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.
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.
Teenagers would rather text than talk. They feel calls would reveal too much.
Governing was always difficult for conservatives, but as they return to the opposition, they are rediscovering their skill at blame evasion.
Promises to get beyond partisanship are the most perfunctory sort of campaign rhetoric, almost as empty as the partisanship itself.
Surrogate motherhood has been the subject of much philosophical and political dispute over the years.
Leftovers in their less visible form are called memories. Stored in the refrigerator of the mind and the cupboard of the heart.
No man can be happy without a friend, nor be sure of his friend till he is unhappy.
He does not believe who does not live according to his belief.
Get the facts, or the facts will get you. And when you get em, get em right, or they will get you wrong.
