Occupation: Author Birth: September 7, 1950
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….
Now he is a statesman, when what he really wants is to be what most reporters are, adult delinquents..
But one immediate thing can be done right now, and that is: lower the temperature. Any way you can, and everybody. Just lower it..
when men in politics are together, testosterone poisoning makes them insane..
[democrats] have become the party of snobs. You have become the party of Americans who think they're better than other Americans..
Part of courage is simple consistency..
The 2008 election settled nothing, not even for a while. Our national politics are reflecting what appears to be going on geologically, on the bottom….
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….
We don't need to 'control' free speech, we need to control ourselves..
Morals are concerned with what aids or impedes the fulfillment of basic human needs..
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….
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….
Humor is the shock absorber of life; it helps us take the blows..
It's better for the country when each party looks like it stands for something serious, for some big things, but they're not narrow and they're not b….
The Democrats often seem like the Not Republican Party, no more and no less..
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….
We must try again to be alive to what the people of our country really long for in our national life: forgiveness and grace, maturity and wisdom. ...….
Remember the waterfront shack with the sign FRESH FISH SOLD HERE. Of course it's fresh, we're on the ocean. Of course it's for sale, we're not giving….
I guess the second-term team is not quite as adoring as the first..
A speech is poetry: cadence, rhythm, imagery, sweep! A speech reminds us that words, like children, have the power to make dance the dullest beanbag ….
We are all afraid. That's the thing that unites all truly successful people: fear, fear of failing, fear of criticism, fear of letting down the team ….