The State Department has been your beat for so long. It has always smelled like Bob Corker was the in case of emergency, the easy guy.

There’s nothing like music to teach you that eventually if you work hard enough, it does get better. You see the results.

The White House is dismissing these town hall fireworks as AstroTurf movements which means it's the opposite of a true grass roots movement.

There are potential policy consequences to a president who doesn't believe in our election system and believes that there's rampant voter fraud.

South Carolina put George H.W. Bush into the White House. But George W. Bush into the White House and sent Jeb Bush back to Miami.

Some day, the public might actually revolt against the undemocratic system of seniority that allows Congress to keep the old ways of Washington ingrained into the culture of Congress.

There's no worse crime in journalism these days than simply deciding something's a story because Drudge links to it.

Donald Trump does not stick to Republican orthodoxy, which, you know, and this is always supposed to have been his downfall. Maybe it's his strength.

The more there is scandal and corruption in Washington, the better it is for McCain, so he's at a high point right now.

We're all living under the threat of violence and terror these days.

Voters definitely believe Washington is corrupt - but most think its bipartisan.

You can believe something really hard, ' Faith says, 'and still be wrong.

Never make enemies of anyone younger or healthier than you are. They write your history.

Composing is a slowed-down improvisation; often one cannot write fast enough to keep up with the stream of ideas.

I think confidence comes from doing something well, working at it hard, and you build it up. It's not something you're born with. You have to build the confidence as you go along.

By this curious turn of disposition I have gained the reputation of deliberate heartlessness; how undeserved, I alone can appreciate.

To be getting an education means this: to be learning what is your own, and what is not your own.

Sometimes I post quotes on Twitter.

A beautiful death is for people who have lived like animals to die like angels.

The person who says, 'I'm enlightened' probably isn't.

Every time you stand up for an ideal, you send forth a tiny ripple of hope.