The difficulty for Mr. Obama will be when the public sees where his decisions lead - higher inflation, higher interest rates, higher taxes, sluggish growth, and a jobless recovery.

As people do better, they start voting like Republicans - unless they have too much education and vote Democratic, which proves there can be too much of a good thing.

At the core, we are dealing with two parties that have fundamentally different views of the world.

I think it's dawning on some Democrats that obstructing the Patriot Act, like they've been obstructing everything else, is bad for them politically.

You may end up with a different math, but you're entitled to your math. I'm entitled to the math.

If we do with Latinos what we did with African-Americans, Republicans and conservatives will be doomed.

What Mr. Obama wants in a nominee isn't really 'empathy' and 'understanding.' He wants a liberal, activist Supreme Court justice.

If you really want to diminish a candidate, depict him as the foil of his handler. This is as old in American politics as politics itself.

For a person who promised hope and civility in politics, Mr. Obama has shown a borderline obsessiveness in blaming Mr. Bush.

Mr. Obama has an ingenious approach to job losses: He describes them as job gains.

If there's a leak out of my administration, I want to know who it is.

The moment one begins to solder right and wrong together, one's conscience becomes like a piece of plated goods.

When John (Giles) was manager of Ireland, much as he loved me, he still dropped me.

The dream appears to be real. It does really seem we are here in this world; but this is not so.

I'm looking for Commander James Bond, not an overgrown stunt man. [on meeting Sean Connery]

In general confusion youth recognizes itself and rejoices.

straightway like a bell Came low and clear The slow, sad murmur of the distant seas

That the desires of the majority of the people are often for injustice and inhumanity against the minority, is demonstrated by every page of the history of the world.

Take a day to heal from the lies you've told yourself and the ones that have been told to you.

They head the list of bad to bet on: But I insist they're worse to get on

Despair and die. The ghosts