"Wit penetrates; humor envelops. Wit is a function of verbal intelligence; humor is imagination operating on good natu…"

"Candor is a compliment; it implies equality. It's how true friends talk."

"I would think to myself [...] that the battle for the mind of Ronald Reagan was like the trench warfare of World War …"

"The Democrats had long labeled the impeachment debate a distraction from the urgent business of a great nation. But t…"

"Mr. Bush is the triumph of the seemingly average American man. He's normal. He thinks in a sort of common-sense way. …"

"I do not know what the Democratic Party spent, in toto, on the 2004 election, but what they seem to have gotten for i…"

"Imagine for a moment that angels exist, that they are pure spirits of virtue and light, that they care about us and f…"

"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 sto…"

"The most qualified? No. I think they went for this — excuse me — political bullshit about narratives."

"Because she jumbles up so many cultural categories, because she is a feminist not in the Yale Gender Studies sense bu…"