It's worth remembering George W. Bush, Barack Obama also came in thinking they had the magic key to better, warmer relations with Russia; those efforts ended in tears.

Al Gore's performances could be a case study in abnormal-psychology classes.

Bill Clinton was a liberal who could appeal to conservative-leaning Bubba voters.

Comedians still make fun of Bill's out-of-control appetites, but with Hillary, the mockery is about how she lets nothing be out of control.

There's no wobble in Bush. If anything, the opposite. Right after hello, the next words out of his mouth are: I've never been more convinced that the decisions I made are the right decisions.

In person, George W. Bush is extremely forceful. He has a restless energy when he sits in a chair, and nearly leaps out of it when making certain points.

Almost all political campaigns involve falsity and playacting.

Message to Obama: Fighting the Clinton machine won't be as easy as picking up favorable press clips.

Clinton's fakery was so deft and deeply ingrained that it was impossible to tell where it ended and the real Bill Clinton began. This constituted a kind of political genius.

It is Hillary's lot in life not to be able to fake it well...

Because liberalism typically doesn't sell in American presidential politics, liberal candidates tend to run as culturally conservative centrists.

Did I miss the part where we were in a relationship?

We are like poor people, who have nothing but each other, and are happy.

Your being happy is an incentive to the world.

When you were made a leader you weren't given a crown, you were given the responsibility to bring out the best in others.

Genius is saying what is in your heart, because it's in everyone's heart.

For it is only the finite that has wrought and suffered; the infinite lies stretched in smiling repose.

We've got to ride the global-warming issue. Even if the theory of global warming is wrong, we will be doing the right thing in terms of economic policy and environmental policy.

Men have ascribed to God imperfections that they would deplore in themselves.

If you think about it, Washington's overwhelming power in the world is founded on death, the awesome arsenal for killing people.

Give up the idea of 'color' for awhile! Consider masses - values, only... One dark and one light place in every picture.