We all live in the moment, and we often mistakenly believe that what is true today was true always. Not so in politics, and especially in Congressional elections.

Because of the structure of the contemporary American party system, every president is polarizing.

Politics is a good thing!

People are trying to decide whether the man-made disaster is worse than Mother Nature's disaster.

The big news, delicious tidbits, pearls of wisdom -- nicely packaged, constantly updated... What political junkie could ask for more?

I doubt God would want to touch America's tax code, since it is already located in the third rung of Hell.

Shockingly, the Bidens donated under $1,000 to all charities combined every year for the ten years prior to 2008.

No, " said Luis, "You can't date the Lord of the Night Court.""Well, I'm not, he dumped me.""You can't get dumped by the lord of the night court.""Oh, yes, you can. You so completely can.

Pride and power fall when the person falls, but discoveries of truth form legacies that can be built upon for generations.

Ring the bells that still can ring. Forget your perfect offering. There is a crack in everything. That's how the light gets in.-Leonard Cohen

As a nation we are dedicated to keeping physically fit - and parking as close to the stadium as possible.

If you're overfishing at the top of the food chain, and acidifying the ocean at the bottom, you're creating a squeeze that could conceivably collapse the whole system.

Our sense of self is a kind of construct. It is in some ways like a novel, and it's like a fabric of fictions that we patch together from memory.

I think I'm proudest of making my parents proud.

I wrote my first book in a toilet in a factory where I was a floor sweeper.

Freedom is indivisible; the chains on any one of my people were the chains on all of them, the chains on all of my people were the chains on me.

The ice sheets seem to be shrinking 100 years ahead of schedule.