It was my intent all along to write a nonjudgmental narrative of Bush's presidency. Along the way, a number of liberal friends of mine expressed disgust that I would spend time on such an endeavor.

I don't think of Bush as a particularly angry person - if anything, he has a facility for not harboring grudges, for letting things roll off of his back after momentarily bristling.

Bush made a point of emphasizing to me that unlike his father's administration, his was one of significant "walk-in access" to the Oval Office.

As a journalist, you sort of grind away, taking rejections as they come, building on whatever advances you've achieved.

Bush always has viewed himself as an "activist," which flies in the face of some conservative notions, such as the federal government's role in education.

Bush told me, he doesn't watch TV ... though it's untrue that he doesn't read the newspapers.

Look what we, the humans, the humanity!???What we are doing in "The Purge", it's shown.

I think that we give the impression, to carry on your metaphor, that we go a little faster than we actually do. I'm fairly lazy so I'm always interested in slowing down.

True obedience is true freedom.

The main message of it is to not get stagnant and that God wants us to continue to grow and become a better person.

Association with women is the basis of good manners.

You know, my friends, there comes a time when people get tired of being trampled over by the iron feet of oppression.

Sometimes we tend to be in despair when the person we love leaves us, but the truth is, it's not our loss, but theirs, for they left the only person who wouldn't give up on them.

Although my grandmother lived out her long life in the shadow of Rainy Mountian, the immense landscape of the continental interior lay like memory in her blood

At my age, if I make it up, it's still an old saying.

The Constitution is a radical document... it is the job of the government to rein in people's rights.