Occupation: Author Birth: September 7, 1950
The biggest improvement in the flow of information in America in our lifetimes is that no single group controls the news anymore..
Politicians, please, think of yourselves! Move to help Terri Schiavo, and no one will be mad at you, and you'll keep a human being alive..
I should say here, because some in Washington like to dream up ways to control the Internet, that we don't need to 'control' free speech, we need to ….
If you commit a big crime then you are crazy, and the more heinous the crime the crazier you must be. Therefore you are not responsible, and nothing ….
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 ….
In the 1950s and '60s the [democrat] party included many obviously earnest and thoughtful liberals who supported goals that were in line with and exp….
Here is an old tradition badly in need of return: You have to earn your way into politics. You should go have a life, build a string of accomplishmen….
The Irish are often nervous about having the appropriate face for the occasion. They have to be happy at weddings, which is a strain, so they get dep….
Speeches are not magic and there is no great speech without great policy..
When everyone in America knows you're in a dreadful position, admit you're in a dreadful position. Don't lie about it and make them roll their eyes, ….
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 ….
Read good, big important things..
Speeches are more important in politics than talking points, as a rule, and are better remembered..
There should be a name for this, for the process whereby one knows one is being yanked and concedes it has been done successfully - that one is grate….
My generation, faced as it grew with a choice between religious belief and existential despair, chose marijuana. Now we are in our Cabernet stage..
But one immediate thing can be done right now, and that is: lower the temperature. Any way you can, and everybody. Just lower it..
In a president, character is everything. A president doesn't have to be brilliant... He doesn't have to be clever; you can hire clever... You can hir….
Humor is the shock absorber of life; it helps us take the blows..
I guess the second-term team is not quite as adoring as the first..
I was sailing from tedium to apathy with a side trip to torpor..
Let's cause some senators distress..