Every now and then, a presidential candidate surprises us with a truly human and honest moment.

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.

Harsh reality is always better than false hope.

This is a test. This is only a test. If this was my actual life I'd be famous, rich, and thin.

Do not trust all men, but trust men of worth; the former course is silly, the latter a mark of prudence.

Inside I'll always be an outsider

To work on behalf of the wild is to restore culture

Art is the body's pronunciation of the soul.

Since I've retired, I eat less, weigh less, train less and care less.

Sexually awakened women, affirmed and recognized as such, would mean the complete collapse of the authoritarian ideology

Thrust your head into the public street, to gaze on Christian fools with varnish'd faces.