Democratic politicians have disliked things I've written, Republican politicians... if they all love you, you might as well be driving a Good Humor truck.

Texas has had one of the nation's worst public health records for decades. More than a quarter of its citizens have no health insurance.

I thought writing about somebody current would be a little closer to what I'm used to doing.

Another thing that's quite different in writing a book as a practicing newspaperman is that if you look at what you've written the next morning and you think you didn't get it quite right, you can fix it.

This is one of his core issues, one of the things he has been concerned about the longest.

There's a Washington standard of casually putting things off the record. It's really gone too far. I don't know an easy way to turn it back.