Obama's explanation for the slowdown in economic growth is that the public sector is hurting, and that's where Washington must step in and act.

Every great political campaign rewrites the rules; devising a new way to win is what gives campaigns a comparative advantage against their foes.

Conservatives must avoid the siren song of schism, or all is lost.

Comedians and impressionists used to be two different showbiz animals entirely, but now there's no such thing as a comedian who doesn't do impressions.

Pop culture is a reflection of social change, not a cause of social change.

There's no light at the end of the tunnel in the Republican message, no promise of better things to come. There's only the present stagnation, followed by a slow decline.

I was wholeheartedly attracted to the conservative atmosphere that permeated the city of Washington.

I look at 'The New York Review of Books.' It's what it has been for 35 or 40 years, which is a highly sophisticated vehicle for anti-American self-hatred.

While negativity is politically useful, it is also demoralizing unless it is accompanied - and to some extent overshadowed - by elevated and inspiring ideas about the American future.

Your race and gender don't change, but you can choose to change your political affiliation at will.

The problem is that borrowing money to pay back more borrowed money that will oblige you in the future to borrow even more money doesn't sound kosher. Because it isn't.

What man thinks of changing himself so as to suit his wife?

Women truly are better than men. Otherwise, they'd be intolerable.

Fitness begins with initiative and continues with consistency. The six pack abs is a byproduct of being healthy.

Curran struck at my wrist. His fingers were cat-quick, but I had spent my life honing my reflexes, and he missed. “Well, look at that.” I studied my free wrist. “Denied. Good-bye

I have masturbated myself out of serious problems in my life.

I was invincible, at least that's what I wanted you to think, and I wanted me to think it, too.

I do not believe that the majority of men in the world would like to hurt women, but they can be very complacent, and that is just as bad.

It is so easy to convince others; it is so difficult to convince oneself.

Progress is impossible without change

It costs ten times more to govern us than it used to, and we are not governed one-tenth as good.