Anything can go wrong in a debate, and Obama is not a perfect debater.

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.

If the concept of God has any validity or any use, it can only be to make us larger, freer, and more loving. If God cannot do this, then it is time we got rid of Him.

You can't believe what a lovely planet we have until you see her from outside.

Aretmis gripped her bow. “Let us pray I am wrong.”Can goddesses pray?

You know, a better man for a better America. That's sort of our slogan.

The oppression of women is the single most corrosive and urgent problem of our time.

Heroes are often the most ordinary of men.

People get hurt all the time in the game of football, it's part of what we do.

I'm always slightly envious of people who become extremely rich without anyone knowing who the hell they are, like financiers.

Sometimes I'll go down a path, and I'll just pray that something's going to come to get me out of this path that I'm on.