You may end up with a different math, but you're entitled to your math. I'm entitled to the math.

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.

If we do with Latinos what we did with African-Americans, Republicans and conservatives will be doomed.

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

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.

And Priests in black gowns, were walking their rounds, And binding with briars, my joys & desires.

I waste at least an hour every day lying in bed. Then I waste time pacing. I waste time thinking. I waste time being quiet and not saying anything because I'm afraid I'll stutter.

Something of a pattern had started to form and it was ugly.

I could have gone on flying through space forever.

Never in this world can hatred be stilled by hatred; it will be stifled by non-hatred - this is the law Eternal.

Really, people are not a school of fish. Finding the leaders of the future is a question of recognizing those people who give leadership in a crisis.

And I like those authors best whose scenes describe my own situation in life-- and the friends who are about me whose stories touch me with interest, from resembling my own homely existence.

When an idea is wanting, a word can always be found to take its place.

You ask me, How much time? I do not know. I know it means time enough to forget time.

We are lucky to have Manmohan Singh as our Prime Minister. We could not have done without a person and leader of the choice as Manmohan Singh, who gets all international attention.