Presidents who restrict civil liberties, even in wartime, are usually judged harshly for it.

An old-timer is someone who can remember when a naughty child was taken to the woodshed instead of to a psychiatrist.

Coolidge's preference for experience over ideas was a deeply rooted trait.

I find it hard to imagine that future historians will see the Iraq War as a big plus in Bush's ledger, but we have to admit that we simply don't know for sure.

I'm hard pressed to give an example on the spot of a president who explicitly spoke of the vindication of history, but I'm confident that there are many such examples.

People should make distinctions between the office of the presidency and the person who occupies it. You can respect the office even as you lose respect for the individual.

I never knew how soothing trees are - many trees and patches of open sunlight and tree presences it is almost like having another being.

We are infected by our own misunderstanding of how our own minds work.

It does feel really good to sing songs about somebody that I really respect, admire, love, care about and am so passionately attracted to after all this time.

Paddy was in the delivery room when the midwife handed him a black baby. "Is this yours?" she asked "probably" said Paddy "she burns everything else"

Real Madrid are like a rabbit in the glare of the headlights in the face of Manchester United's attacks. But this rabbit comes with a suit of armour in the shape of two precious away goals.

The only law which is really lived up to wholeheartedly and with a vengeance is the law of conformity.

Wherever you go, God be with you.

I predict that in the years ahead Enron, not Sept. 11, will come to be seen as the greater turning point in U.S. society.

I am not a politics wonk. I like the idea of my writing reflecting more about who I am or other people.

India has the most technically ambitious and innovative nuclear energy program in the world.