Let's cause some senators distress..

The Democratic Party is that amazing thing, out of power for six years and yet exhausted. They're pale, tired, and unready. Too bad, since it's their….

I love eulogies. They are the most moving kind of speech because they attempt to pluck meaning from the fog, and on short order, when the emotions ar….

The Democrats had long labeled the impeachment debate a distraction from the urgent business of a great nation. But the Republicans argued that the p….

[democrats] have become the party of snobs. You have become the party of Americans who think they're better than other Americans..

Ted Sorrenson, JFK's presidential speech writer, when asked how it came about that he wrote the "ask not what you can do..." speech, he would answer ….

Most people aren't appreciated enough, and the bravest things we do in our lives are usually known only to ourselves. No one throws ticker tape on th….

My generation, faced as it grew with a choice between religious belief and existential despair, chose marijuana. Now we are in our Cabernet stage..

Speeches are more important in politics than talking points, as a rule, and are better remembered..

At some point, don't voters start to see all of public life as one big polluted river? And if they do, don't they stop saying things like "That's a b….

The Democratic Party will now stick with its guy forever, no matter how harmful he is. Perhaps you call that loyalty, and perhaps there's something t….

By trying to do too much, you risk not doing enough..

What conservatives and Republicans must recognize is that the White House has broken with them. What President Bush is doing, and has been doing for ….

We don't need to 'control' free speech, we need to control ourselves..

What I got was not so much gifts and whishes come trues but a feeling of peace. I got peace itself, actually. And when you have peace, you can be str….

Loyalty consists of many things, including being truthful with our friends. When you really disagree, you have to say so..

Our patriotic fervor was the result of the old and widespread belief in the idea of American exceptionalism, the idea that America was a new thing in….

when men in politics are together, testosterone poisoning makes them insane..

The Democrats often seem like the Not Republican Party, no more and no less..

Humor is the shock absorber of life; it helps us take the blows..

The first snow always startles. It covers the tricycle in the driveway, turning its frame into an abstact sculpture that says: See how quickly yester….