I mean, if you have to wake up in the morning to be validated by the editorial page of the New York Times, you got a pretty sorry existence.

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.

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

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

Whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap.

When it comes to love, it's always worth the sacrifice. Always.

I wrote a song about dental floss but did anyone's teeth get cleaner?

I feel age like an icicle down my back.

In this era of globalization we are witnessing struggles within individual states about what their identity and interests consist in.

Any job ends up with stress, and certainly there's always a deadline looming when you work in TV. It's sort of constant.

Greatness of mind becomes an object of love only when the power at work in it itself has a noble character

I was in Woody Allen's Stardust Memories in 1980. It was only a bit part and I didn't get to speak but I felt that I was in a real movie and heading where I had always wanted to be.

I think we are making a mistake, a very big mistake if we look at what we call the Arab Awakening only by looking at the whole dynamics in political and not in economic terms.

Despair shows us the limit of our imagination. Imaginations shared create collaboration, collaboration creates community, and community inspires social change.