The problem with these presidential debates like this is that you can't really prepare for them, because the questions are so individual and personal…

- Michael Gerson

The Republican Party has become more conservative. The Democratic Party has become marginally more liberal. There's almost no overlap in the middle, …

- Michael Gerson

When you analyze it, Mike Pence could only defend Donald Trump in some circumstances by projecting an image of himself, as though he were - that Trum…

- Michael Gerson

There is some of the paradox of foreign policy polling. So on Iraq and Syria, the President is pretty much doing what Americans want, he's not very e…

- Michael Gerson

The NSA is not looking through people's address books and Visa bills and violating the rights of average citizens. That's not what the NSA does.

- Michael Gerson

This has all the appearance of a foreign power trying to undermine structures of legitimacy of an American election. That is a serious matter. If I w…

- Michael Gerson

When your goal is to bring together the country in a substantive way to say that we're united by values and more - that are - you know, stronger than…

- Michael Gerson

Atheists can be good people; they just have no objective way to judge the conduct of those who are not.

- Michael Gerson

The soft bigotry of low expectations

- Michael Gerson