There are a lot of wonderful people in America who shouldn't be on the Supreme Court - and a lot who should be on the court who aren't such wonderful people.
The five million people who watch cable news are the political nation, the people who really care.
A novel makes it possible to understand not just events, but the people who control the events; not only their choices, but also their motives.
Speech writers are more vulnerable to vanity than any other group of people in Washington.
People who watch a lot of Fox come away knowing a lot less about important world events.
The big winners under the American fiscal system are the rich, who pay some of the lowest taxes anywhere in the world; the old, who are the main beneficiaries of the American social service state; farmers, rural people. These are Republican constituencies.
Maybe it's true that people with less extreme views who are also interested in public affairs have been driven out by a marketplace that doesn't offer them anything of the tone they want to listen to.
People need to understand that in Washington, the process is the punishment.