Those who seem to despise half of America will never be trusted to govern any of it. Those who cherish only the country's past will not be entrusted with its future.

Republicans have been fleeced and exploited and lied to by a conservative entertainment complex.

The Canadian middle class is under less pressure than any other middle class in any developed country on the planet. So they feel good. They feel optimistic. They feel secure.

Republicans originally thought that Fox worked for us, and now we are discovering we work for Fox

The elite isn't leading anymore. It's trapped.

To balance China, the democracies will need new friends - and India with its fast-growing economy, youthful population, and democratic politics seems the obvious candidate.

We all have more at stake in the rules of the game than we do in the outcomes of the game. When that changes, that's when you begin to lose democracy.

Impostor: How George W. Bush Bankrupted America and Betrayed the Reagan Legacy.

There are a lot of wonderful people in America who shouldn't be on the Supreme Court - and a lot who should be on the court who aren't such wonderful people.

We've all been wrong- I certainly have- and we should thank those who set us right. Not always fun, but always best in the end.

Journalism can go right up to the door of the room in which the decisions are made. A novel can go inside the room - and inside the character's heads.

She had been born with a different name, to a woman with laughing eyes and warmly whispered words of love who’d died degraded and afraid on a misty Irish morning.

If our focus is on how we are supposed to feel then we deny ourselves the joy of freedom in how we truly feel.

There is a hopeless longing for nostalgia that pervades the human soul, a return to the warm glow of remembrance or some imagined past.

Feast, n. A festival. A religious celebration usually signalized by gluttony and drunkenness, frequently in honor of some holy person distinguished for abstemiousness.

It is better to take many injuries than to give one.

Life itself suggests a higher good than life itself can yield.

I don't think I'm very cool as a person. I'm just better than anyone else at acting cool.

Between a fellow who is stupid and honest and one who is smart and crooked, I will take the first. I won't get much out of him, but with that other guy I can't keep what I've got.

I was kidnapped by literature at a young age and never wanted to be ransomed.

How can there be too many children? That is like saying there are too many flowers.