We journalists are never so idiotic as when we analyze things that we shouldn't be analyzing.

Novel writing should never be confused with journalism. Unfortunately, in the case of Primary Colors, a fair number of journalists confused.

Cynicism is what passes for insight among the mediocre.

Affirmative action was always racial justice on the cheap.

Diversity has been written into the DNA of American life; any institution that lacks a rainbow array has come to seem diminished, if not diseased.

Dictating to dictators doesn't work; they are congenitally delusional about their own indispensability.

Bush promised a foreign policy of humility and a domestic policy of compassion. He has given us a foreign policy of arrogance and a domestic policy that is cynical, myopic and cruel.

Anonymous sources are a practice of American journalism in the 20th and 21st century, a relatively recent practice. The literary tradition of anonymity goes back to the Bible.

I've been described as a grizzled political veteran.

You can't get all of your news from Jon Stewart, especially since it's a comedy show.

For those of us who consider ourselves political moderates, life is a dispiriting slog, a sorry mix of rectitude and ineptitude.

I’m going to tell you something that will make you very happy: your god is the one true god. Just remember, I am telling this to everyone… and I mean it.

Real Love Spread Real Happiness!

What you believe about you impacts you more than what others believe about you.

People can say the money doesn't really matter but it does show you how much a club respects you.

If we succeed, it makes no sense to keep it only for ourselves.

We do not really feel grateful toward those who make our dreams come true; they ruin our dreams.

Money can be made later, but time is lost forever.

The poor go to war, to fight and die for the delights, riches, and superfluities of others.

Prosperity's right hand is industry and her left hand is frugality.

If America is too arrogant, too prideful to repent, it's not the kind of country that God wants it to be.