I think if you're going to master policy, especially world affairs, you've got to know history.

I think the editorial page of the Washington Post is the best in the country. I think the editorials - considering it's a liberal town, liberal constituency and from the liberal tradition - I think it's the best editorial page around. It's quite balanced.

This nomination is a catastrophe, ... I don't think there is a way she can end up being confirmed.

I don't think Bill Bennett's a racist, though.

There is a mystique about psychiatry that people think that you have some kind of a magical lens, you know, Superman's X-ray vision into the soul. One of the reasons I left psychiatry is that I didn't believe that.

I know people see it as a meltdown, ... I think it's a sign of maturity of a movement that can have a furious fight over principle.