[Donald Trump] campaigned on an enormous tax cut, and he campaigned on a deregulatory agenda.

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.

Love is God. God is love.

If you are caught on a golf course during a storm and are afraid of lightning, hold up a 1-iron. Not even God can hit a 1-iron.

Virtue is more to man than either water or fire. I have seen men die from treading on water and fire, but I have never seen a man die from treading the course of virtue.

Never underestimate how extraordinarily difficult it is to understand a situation from another person's point of view.

Agitation is all about poetry, governance is all about prose.

Never settle. There is no reason to rush.

Quit hanging on to the handrails . . . Let go. Surrender. Go for the ride of your life. Do it every day.

She'll be evaluated like any other Double-A umpire. Major League Baseball has never attempted to influence our decision

A dead end street is a good place to turn around. Can't really fault the logic of that, unless you want to go down the dead end of course!

The role of the board is advice and consent. If the CEO does not lay out a clear strategy and tries to get the board to set one, it will usually end in disaster.