The debate over troop levels will rage for years; it is...beside the point.

Al Gore's performances could be a case study in abnormal-psychology classes.

Bill Clinton was a liberal who could appeal to conservative-leaning Bubba voters.

Comedians still make fun of Bill's out-of-control appetites, but with Hillary, the mockery is about how she lets nothing be out of control.

There's no wobble in Bush. If anything, the opposite. Right after hello, the next words out of his mouth are: I've never been more convinced that the decisions I made are the right decisions.

In person, George W. Bush is extremely forceful. He has a restless energy when he sits in a chair, and nearly leaps out of it when making certain points.

Almost all political campaigns involve falsity and playacting.

Message to Obama: Fighting the Clinton machine won't be as easy as picking up favorable press clips.

Clinton's fakery was so deft and deeply ingrained that it was impossible to tell where it ended and the real Bill Clinton began. This constituted a kind of political genius.

It is Hillary's lot in life not to be able to fake it well...

Because liberalism typically doesn't sell in American presidential politics, liberal candidates tend to run as culturally conservative centrists.

Nothing is worse than loneliness.

What thou art that thou art.

Jesus remains unshaken as the practical man; and we stand exposed as the fools, the blunderers, the unpractical visionaries.

All careers go up and down like friendships, like marriages, like anything else, and you can't bat a thousand all the time.

We live in a real world. Come back to it.

Love cannot be had for the asking; it comes only as a gift from the heart of another

Even when we sleep we watch over one another.

Mythology is much better stuff than history. It has form; logic; a message.

Education is the key to unlocking the world, a passport to freedom.

Most painting in the European tradition was painting the mask. Modern art rejected all that. Our subject matter was the person behind the mask.