When it comes to trade, when it comes to standing up to countries like North Korea, when it comes to standing up to guys like Vladimir Putin, Donald Trump is not a conservative.

The dismissal of any of these people would send a useful signal to U.S. allies that the president has the nerve - and self-awareness - to make a change.

The United States survives so long as at least one of its major parties is politically and intellectually healthy.

I don't think the Republican Party, or I should say the Republican Party as the vehicle for modern American conservative ideas, survives with Donald Trump.

In the Middle East there are two kinds of regimes - those that could be worse, and those that couldn't be worse.

The presidency of Barack Obama is a case study in stupid does.

Hillary Clinton, as awful as I find her, is a survivable event. I'm not so sure about [Donald] Trump.

In taking care with language, we take care of ourselves.

I think a Donald Trump presidency sets up an Elizabeth Warren ascendancy. And it not Elizabeth Warren, someone of her ilk. And I think that's dreadful.

The only person who counts in the administration is the president of the United States.

I have been writing about Hillary Clinton, I just actually looked this up, since 1998 when she was busy standing by when Suha Arafat was launching anti-Semitic tirades against Israel and the Jews.

Is today a good day to die?Is today the day?And if not today–when?

My advice is to make acting your second career choice

This indigested vomit of the Sea,Fell to the Dutch by Just Propriety.

Among the men who fought on Iwo Jima, uncommon valor was a common virtue.

Any innovation that is evident in my paintings is a direct result of something that happened in the course of making a print.

One of the marks of a life well lived has to be reaching a state of finally getting it, of not needing more, and of being able to sign off with something approaching peace of mind.

Public policy today is favoring the rich, not the poor. It's not addressing the needs of the poor.

How we carry what has gone wrong for us is essential to being at home in ourselves, and present to the world with all of its failings.

From our first babblings to our last word, we make but one statement, and that is our life.

The rude beginnings of every art acquire a greater celebrity than the art in perfection; he who first played the fiddle was looked upon as a demigod.