How in heaven's name can a nation with a $1 trillion surplus threaten so much scientific research so vital to its future?

How in heaven's name can a nation with a $1 trillion surplus threaten so much scientific research so vital to its future?

What you're seeing in the East Wing is normal turnover, and what you're seeing in the West Wing is abnormal. It's an aberration to have a team stay as long as this one has.

When he hung up on Nancy Reagan, that's when he crossed his final threshold.

I don't have any problem with a reporter or a news person who says the President is uninformed on this issue or that issue. I don't think any of us would challenge that. I do have a problem with the singular focus on this, as if that's the only standard by which we ought to judge a president. What we learned in the last administration was how little having an encyclopedic grasp of all the facts has to do with governing.

A leader's role is to raise people's aspirations for what they can become and to release their energies so they will try to get there.