Nothing energizes me more than to burrow myself under a pile of received wisdom and emerge triumphant with the truth.

With so much to be aware of, awareness bracelets have reverted to signifying nothing more than color itself. Idealism has devolved into fashion.

Moderates tend more than ideologues to be other-directed types who respond to external pressure.

Spoken language's elaborate rhythms and inflections convey more meaning per word than the printed word.

Whenever a president nominates somebody to a high-profile post, there is always the risk that some skeleton, real or imagined, will emerge from the nominee's closet and doom the whole enterprise.

The only agency of the federal government with a more demoralized workforce than Homeland Security is the Small Business Administration, a notorious turkey farm that should have been abolished years ago.