Obama's presidency hasn't been dedicated to achieving economic growth in the short term, or about creating jobs.

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.

Yahoo .. Yet another hierarchical officious oracle

A great rock is not disturbed by the wind; the mind of a wise man is not disturbed by either honor or abuse.

In the Mexico we want, there is no room for corruption, for cover-ups, and least of all for impunity.

Not only has President Bush broken his word on funding, he has not put in the effort required to turn this excellent idea into a lifesaving reality.

The only reason a road is good as every wanderer knows / Is just because of the homes, the homes, the homes to which one goes

You know how people say awards don't mean anything? Hello! I think the energy around them makes everyone cuckoo.

Breaks like a ball falling off a pool table.

Maidens, like moths, are ever caught, by glare, And Mammon wins his way where seraphs might despair.

With all their damned talk of modern painting, I've been forty years discovering that the queen of all colours is black!

Yankee pitchers have had great success this year against Cabrera when they get him out.