We are most alive when we're in love.

What art offers is space - a certain breathing room for the spirit.

Rain is grace; rain is the sky descending to the earth; without rain, there would be no life.

Obama's victory in November 2008 was a historic political accomplishment.

If you want to know why Republicans and conservatives are in a political crisis, you need only consider the fact that the Right's deeply held view now boils down to this: Taxes should not go up on the wealthy, and your health benefits should be cut.

We must say something, even when we know nothing.

Unquestionably, American political rhetoric can be repugnant, and the Right can certainly be as guilty as the Left.

What Obama is saying is simple: The United States has become Too Big To Fail.

The defense of ObamaCare's constitutionality relies mainly on the truism that everyone is sure to get sick at some point in their lives, and this makes the health-care market unlike any other market.

America may be in a dour condition, but it is not going to elect a dour president.

Our compulsive hunger always to know first, speak first and decide first has only been amplified by the fact that we can now all participate instantly in a virtual version of a national cocktail-party conversation on Twitter, Facebook and blogs.

Obama's presidency hasn't been dedicated to achieving economic growth in the short term, or about creating jobs.

I've worked as someone's deputy, and now it's time for me to run something. It's time for me to run my own shop.

Your race and gender don't change, but you can choose to change your political affiliation at will.

Obama learned from Ronald Reagan that it helps to strike an optimistic tone. But genuine optimism deriving from American exceptionalism, it turns out, does not come naturally to him.

Romney is a good, intelligent, extraordinarily generous man who put on a great fight. But he didn't understand the country or the people he sought to lead, and that is why he lost.

The problem is that borrowing money to pay back more borrowed money that will oblige you in the future to borrow even more money doesn't sound kosher. Because it isn't.

The thing is, Obama is right that it would be a calamity for the government to default on its debt by not meeting its obligations. Such a thing has never happened and can't be allowed to happen.

Robots have a rich and storied history in movies.

I don't feel alienated from American culture, but I understand people who do.

Barack Obama is one of the greatest politicians in American history.

Newt Gingrich is a very intelligent man, if he says so himself.

This has always been the way of presidential politics. The president rises above the fray while his surrogates go on the attack. They throw the spears and fling the mud; he sits upon the throne.

The presidency is not an entry-level electoral job.