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

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.

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.

Advice is like snow the softer it falls the longer it dwells upon and the deeper it sinks into the mind.

It's OK if you mess up. You should give yourself a break.

Numerous studies have shown how when one person in a romantic coupling gets depressed, the other becomes more depressed.

I've reached the point where I hardly care whether I live or die. The world will keep on turning without me, and I can't do anything to change events anyway.

The thesis that risk assessment itself is inherently risky is nowhere better borne out than in the area of high-consequence risks.

The human mind has a primitive ego defense mechanism that negates all realities that produce too much stress for the brain to handle. It’s called Denial.

I don't believe in censorship in any form.

If I'm going to take my clothes off I figured I might as well do it for something that I'm directing myself since I had complete control of the edit.

On one hand, it is very important that democracy and human rights be defended across borders. But it is also very important to respect the right of each country to choose its own path.

Happy salesmen not only multiply their volume of business and their income, they also multiply themselves.