Do Obama and Boxer realize they are on the wrong side of a tsunami of voter discontent with a government run by and for the public employee unions?

An ignorant person with a bad character is like an unarmed robber, but a learned person with a blog is a robber fully armed

My father was not a political animal.

I know I have the mental capacity of a thousand bloggers, but because of that, my obligation to serve God is also that of a thousand bloggers

Do we really want a society in which the stigma of going on the dole has been erased?

I may have been the only candidate in America who failed to ride the wave of anti-establishment anger to victory.

I've often been accused of spending more time and energy criticizing my fellow Democrats than criticizing Republicans.

People have to eat and it's good to have a last-resort dole they can turn to.

I'm not anti-immigration.

I don't have any particular beef with Barbara Boxer. My beef is with the official Democratic doctrine that anybody who reaches Boxer's position has to spout and has to endorse.

Ezra Klein gets under my skin. He seems to spout the party line.

The sacred-souls of authors are displayed in the beauty of their books.

The minute you begin to do what you really want to do, it's really a different kind of life.

It's one thing to be a wisecracking precocious teen hanging out with twenty-seven year olds.It's another thing to get in the way of a grown man trying to get laid.

Never to suffer would have been never to have been blessed.

Courage is being scared to death ... and saddling up anyway.

You can't pray away global warming, and that's the difference between religious people and sane people.

How much happier you would be, how much more of you there would be, if the hammer of a higher God could smash your small cosmos.

I'm not psychic. I cannot know what is in the mind of particular public figures.

My kids have grown up knowing nothing other than me being gone all the time and playing in golf tournaments. That's what they know.

You're creating it all. Nobody else is doing it to you.