Anything may be possible in America, but a Palin presidency is virtually implausible.

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.

How dare a person tell a woman, how to dress, how to talk, how to behave! Any being who does that, is no human.

There is no joy equal to that of being able to work for all humanity and doing what you're doing well.

Make yourself an honest man, and then you may be sure that there is one less scoundrel in the world.

I decided to start anew, to strip away what I had been taught.

Evil report carries further than any applause.

I've been so relieved and so grateful to not have a god to believe in.

To say goodbye is not to develop amnesia

[On daughter Liza Minnelli] I think she decided to go into show business when she was an embryo, she kicked so much.

I've known Johnny Depp since I was 19.

I'm like, If you do something dumb, I'll write about it. If you put something out there, to me it's like you're kind of asking for it.