He talks to people's grievances, but he doesn't seem mad. – Elizabeth Drew

College was at the heart of his sentimental imagination.

Presidents are also always storytellers, purveyors of useful national mythologies.

Politics is motion." John Sears

What does sincerity mean if it is chosen as deliberate strategy?

Governing is not a hero's profession. It is a profession of compromises.

An anti-politician is hardly an anti-politician once he starts winning and works to close the deal by working to sew up the Establishment.

Now even reformers needed political machines.

To claim the mantle of purity is always a risky business. It just gives an excuse to be disillusioned once your ordinary humidity is exposed.

Do what you are doing. Monastic motto

Increasingly we confused the pursuit of happiness with the pursuit of pleasure.

I wasted time, and now doth time waste me.

Maybe we should remember to smile more often. You know, just for the sake of smiling.

I came, I saw, I was confused.

There are few things stressed more strongly in the Bible than the reality of God's work as Judge.

My parents pressed upon me that "In this world, you are a black woman," so I was political about my hair and would not straighten it.

You take jobs so much of the time when you don't need to necessarily work for a living, but it becomes important who you are going to work with.

There's no question that Roberts will vote like William Rehnquist... If he swings, it will be from right to far right.

Nature has planted in our minds an insatiable longing to see the truth.

I'm writing another novel and I know what I'm going to do after, which may be something more like this again, maybe some strange mixture of fiction and non-fiction.

Those who build walls are their own prisoners. I'm going to go fulfill my proper function in the social organism. I'm going to unbuild walls.