Pat Buchanan likes to fight. But only on TV.
People with conservative temperaments don't become fighter pilots or presidential candidates - they're all that way to some extent.
The tax code is becoming steadily more progressive, which shouldn't surprise anyone who understands power politics. It's always easier to force sacrifice on an unpopular minority than it is to ask the majority to pony up.
There's nothing scarier than a reckless prosecutor.
As a rule, the civil-rights establishment is not punctual.
I can't wait to work for Rick Kaplan. He's a great producer. I would host an infomercial if he would produce it.
What bothers me is the lack of self-awareness. I don't know if I have ever met a group less self-aware than political reporters.
There are legitimate, even powerful arguments, to be made against the Bush administration's foreign policy. But those arguments are complicated, hard to explain, and, in the end, not all that sensational.
Maybe I'm flattering myself, but I think my view of humanity has got steadily sunnier since I was 15. I have a higher opinion of politicians, for instance, than I did when I first moved to Washington.
Children born with Down Syndrome are not vegetables, nor are their lives demonstrably not worth living.
I'd been in journalism about two weeks when I realized I would do just about anything to avoid writing, and over the years, I have.
If you think your average Trump voter in Ohio hates Washington, you should see what Washington thinks about the Trump voter in Ohio.
