In Europe and the United States, you've got different systems to select candidates, and no system is perfect.

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.

If I invite God into my life, I am and always will be good enough.

Any fool can make something complicated. It takes a genius to make it simple.

Technology can be a great equalizer when it comes to health care, education - to the point where rich, poor, middle class can all get the same benefits.

Time began when you were born. It will end when you die.

Why waste money on psychotherapy when you can listen to the B Minor Mass?

Like strange mechanical grotesques, Making fantastic arabesques, The shadows raced across the blind.

In New York, you're forced to deal with life; it's there in front of you on a daily basis.

If I'd succeeded right away at acting I wouldn't have sought out writing.

Without such inspiration, we would rapidly deteriorate and finally perish.