Occupation: Author Birth: September 7, 1950
I do not know what the Democratic Party spent, in toto, on the 2004 election, but what they seem to have gotten for it is Barack Obama. Let us savor..
TV gives everyone an image, but radio gives birth to a million images in a million brains..
Candor is a compliment; it implies equality. It's how true friends talk..
The battle for the mind of Ronald Reagan was like the trench warfare of World War I: never have so many fought so hard for such barren terrain..
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….
[On President Clinton's address:] It was the worst inaugural address of our lifetime, and I think the only controversy will be between those who say ….
We don't need to 'control' free speech, we need to control ourselves..
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 ….
A great speech is literature..
Mr. Bush has squandered the hard-built paternity of 40 years. But so has the party, and so have its leaders. If they had pushed away for serious reas….
Abortion is either OK or it's not..
Boundaries aren't all bad. That's why there are walls around mental institutions..
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….
The core of the concept of a bribe is an inducement improperly influencing the performance of a public function meant to be gratuitously exercised..
I think miracles exist in part as gifts and in part as clues that there is something beyond the flat world we see..
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….
In ancient Israel and Rome the judge had appeared as a stand-in for the divine, and corruption was a blinding of the representative of the divine..
Cynicism is not realistic and tough. It's unrealistic and kind of cowardly because it means you don't have to try. ---in Good Housekeeping.
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….