Part of the reason [voter] turnout has dropped is that Washington and politics have felt more alien to people, ... People have felt more removed from the political system and I think that that is unfortunate, because I don't believe it's true. The fact is that every Decision does have an impact.

Four years in the White House and two presidential campaigns is an awful long time, ... In politics, every year in the White House is like dog years, six years off your life.

Reason and experience both forbid us to expect that national morality can prevail in exclusion of religious principle

Washington is a town where there's all kinds of allegations. You've heard much of the allegations. And if people have got solid information, please come forward with it. And that would be people inside the information who are the so-called anonymous sources, or people outside the information—outside the administration.

The reason that he got a sitting with Washington was that his father was Charles Wilson Peale, a very prominent American artist, a friend of the revolution. On the morning of the sitting, he (Rembrandt) was so frightened about confronting the great man, that he said he could barely mix his colors. And so his father had to come along to hold his hand, so to speak.

It's going to be a long, hot summer. The hotter it gets in Baghdad, the hotter it will get in D.C.