Political courage requires clarity.

Novel writing should never be confused with journalism. Unfortunately, in the case of Primary Colors, a fair number of journalists confused.

Cynicism is what passes for insight among the mediocre.

Affirmative action was always racial justice on the cheap.

Diversity has been written into the DNA of American life; any institution that lacks a rainbow array has come to seem diminished, if not diseased.

Dictating to dictators doesn't work; they are congenitally delusional about their own indispensability.

Bush promised a foreign policy of humility and a domestic policy of compassion. He has given us a foreign policy of arrogance and a domestic policy that is cynical, myopic and cruel.

Anonymous sources are a practice of American journalism in the 20th and 21st century, a relatively recent practice. The literary tradition of anonymity goes back to the Bible.

I've been described as a grizzled political veteran.

You can't get all of your news from Jon Stewart, especially since it's a comedy show.

We journalists are never so idiotic as when we analyze things that we shouldn't be analyzing.

Knowledge is the eye that must direct the foot of obedience.

Development does not take place in Washington, DC. Development takes place in the rest of the world.

One never can know the whys and the wherefores of one's passional changes.

Only a very bad theologian would confuse the certainty that follows revelation with the truths that are revealed. They are entirely different things.

When producers want to know what the public wants, they graph it as curves. When they want to tell the public what to get, they say it in curves.

The freedom we enjoy is a richly textured gift handcrafted by ordinary folk

It is by the benefit of letters that absent friends are in a manner brought together.

Twins are under-represented in the media. Hamlet - never twins. Hamlet Twins Of Denmark. King And Queen Lear. It would work. Come on, more twins on television.

When the enemy is at ease, be able to weary him; when well fed, to starve him; when at rest, to make him move. Appear at places to which he must hasten; move swiftly where he does not expect you.