Having a sense of humor has served me more than it has hurt me - just in the sense that it has allowed me to keep my sanity.

I am endlessly fascinated that playing football is considered a training ground for leadership, but raising children isn't.

Clinton had absolutely zero honeymoon, none whatsoever.

I was supposed to be authoritative, but at the same time had to be likeable, a quality that is a bonus, not a requirement, for men in the same position.

Yes, Bill Clinton is a big flirt.

Women have to be the biggest champions in the world of other women's choices.

Exponential growth in access to the Internet, satellite television and radio, cell phones, and P.D.A.'s means that breaking news now reaches virtually every corner of the globe.

Trying to negotiate getting a couple of kids to watch the same TV show requires serious diplomacy.

Democrats single out glaring examples of tax preferences or spending priorities that favor the wealthy and Republicans cry 'class warfare!'

To compare Whitewater to Watergate is a travesty.

The exposed nature of life in the public square affects leaders' attitudes toward risk - and failure.

Freedom of speech means setting words free. Imprisoned and freed words are consequential. All words have consequences.

Maintaining equanimity in misery is called penance (tapa).

Don't let the past steal your present. This is the message of Christmas: We are never alone.

A virtuous and industrious people may be cheaply governed.

My dad is kind of a rascal, like in a Dickensian sense. He just goes from career to career.

Each economy relies on the credit system, that is, on the erroneous assumption that the other will pay back money pumped.

The film The Last Temptation of Christ, no matter what its defenders say, was a slap in the face to Christians everywhere.

To rock isn't necessarily to cavort.

What is polarizing in America is the Democrat Party agenda. What is polarizing and divisive is the Democrat Party agenda and the things they have been trying to do.

If you find it difficult to accept failure then you simply won't get any innovation because employees will be too frightened