For a person who promised hope and civility in politics, Mr. Obama has shown a borderline obsessiveness in blaming Mr. Bush.

The difficulty for Mr. Obama will be when the public sees where his decisions lead - higher inflation, higher interest rates, higher taxes, sluggish growth, and a jobless recovery.

As people do better, they start voting like Republicans - unless they have too much education and vote Democratic, which proves there can be too much of a good thing.

At the core, we are dealing with two parties that have fundamentally different views of the world.

I think it's dawning on some Democrats that obstructing the Patriot Act, like they've been obstructing everything else, is bad for them politically.

You may end up with a different math, but you're entitled to your math. I'm entitled to the math.

If we do with Latinos what we did with African-Americans, Republicans and conservatives will be doomed.

What Mr. Obama wants in a nominee isn't really 'empathy' and 'understanding.' He wants a liberal, activist Supreme Court justice.

If you really want to diminish a candidate, depict him as the foil of his handler. This is as old in American politics as politics itself.

Mr. Obama has an ingenious approach to job losses: He describes them as job gains.

If there's a leak out of my administration, I want to know who it is.

For many, lack of achievement is more a consequence of fear of taking a chance and getting uncomfortable.

Art is an imagination, projection, and reflection of the mind in a particular form that society can internalize and enjoy.

Women, in general, are not part of the corruption of the past, so they can give a new kind of leadership, a new image for mankind.

All the crap that we've encumbered our lives with, it's really meaningless.

Even if I should never see a native converted, God may design by my patience and continuance in the Word to encourage future missionaries.

A Seer's moon, a Siren's tears, Nineteen Mortal, Wayward fears, Incubus graves and Caster rivers, The Final Page the End delivers.

Whether histories have a happy ending or not depends on when the chronicler ends the tale.

Chess, like any creative activity, can exist only through the combined efforts of those who have creative talent, and those who have the ability to organize their creative work

Those who have known death from inside lose all fear of death.

The audience and I have an intimacy that is, I believe, rare, most times out.