Contemporary Democrats are people who can't stand the idea that someone, somewhere is experiencing good news.

Al Gore's performances could be a case study in abnormal-psychology classes.

Bill Clinton was a liberal who could appeal to conservative-leaning Bubba voters.

Comedians still make fun of Bill's out-of-control appetites, but with Hillary, the mockery is about how she lets nothing be out of control.

There's no wobble in Bush. If anything, the opposite. Right after hello, the next words out of his mouth are: I've never been more convinced that the decisions I made are the right decisions.

In person, George W. Bush is extremely forceful. He has a restless energy when he sits in a chair, and nearly leaps out of it when making certain points.

Almost all political campaigns involve falsity and playacting.

Message to Obama: Fighting the Clinton machine won't be as easy as picking up favorable press clips.

Clinton's fakery was so deft and deeply ingrained that it was impossible to tell where it ended and the real Bill Clinton began. This constituted a kind of political genius.

It is Hillary's lot in life not to be able to fake it well...

Because liberalism typically doesn't sell in American presidential politics, liberal candidates tend to run as culturally conservative centrists.

I like to pay taxes. With them, I buy civilization.

That I was sleeping at a time when my husband was dying is so horrible a thought, I can’t confront it.

My experience of malaria was just taking anti-malarials, which give you strange dreams, because I don't want to get malaria.

To live for a time close to great minds is the best kind of education.

That the chance of gain is naturally over-valued, we may learn from the universal success of lotteries.

Listening to radio was like group meditation or a moment of silence in church. You can't get the same effect with TV unless you're very drunk.

If my career were a hairstyle, it would be helmet-head.

He was a patient with a diagnosis that he couldn't understand.

The people of California clearly have the right to prohibit the sale of a product that is the result of abject animal abuse.

Coaches win practices, players win games