Almost all political campaigns involve falsity and playacting.

Clinton's fakery was so deft and deeply ingrained that it was impossible to tell where it ended and the real Bill Clinton began. This constituted a kind of political genius.

There's no wobble in Bush. If anything, the opposite. Right after hello, the next words out of his mouth are: I've never been more convinced that the decisions I made are the right decisions.

Bush's faith in the rightness of his strategy in the broader war is deep-seated. It is a product of faith.

Because liberalism typically doesn't sell in American presidential politics, liberal candidates tend to run as culturally conservative centrists.

The debate about the war seems pretty robust and free. Many publications, from the New Yorker to the Nation, feel perfectly comfortable printing anti-American articles and that's fine. That's what the First Amendment is all about.

Message to Obama: Fighting the Clinton machine won't be as easy as picking up favorable press clips.

It is Hillary's lot in life not to be able to fake it well.

Al Gore's performances could be a case study in abnormal-psychology classes.

Almost all political campaigns involve falsity and playacting.

Bill Clinton was a liberal who could appeal to conservative-leaning Bubba voters.

John Kerry couldn't even order a Philly cheesesteak properly.

In person, George W. Bush is extremely forceful. He has a restless energy when he sits in a chair, and nearly leaps out of it when making certain points.

Comedians still make fun of Bill's out-of-control appetites, but with Hillary, the mockery is about how she lets nothing be out of control.

Calculation has its advantages, but no one likes naked calculation.

The senior officer who met with reporters in Baghdad said there had been 21 car bombings in the capital in May, and 126 in the past 80 days. All last year, he said, there were only about 25 car bombings in Baghdad.

You have to check out 'March of the Penguins'. Penguins are the really ideal example of monogamy.

If Bill was all id, Hillary is all superego.

Al Gore adopted three utterly different personas in three national presidential debates.

France will always be France no matter what, but America involves striving toward an ideal.

Parents are the most likely to be victims of the violence of their mentally ill children.

When my dad was badly weakened by the flu and my mom wanted to call an ambulance to take him to the emergency room, he wouldn't go unless he could shave first and change into a nice shirt and a pair of slacks.

When they are treated, the seriously mentally ill aren't more violent than the general population. If untreated, though, they are.

Yes, this is 21st-century America. Where we have better means to treat mental illness than ever before, but choose to let the insane people decide to get it or not.

Arizona seeks only to enforce the nominal immigration policy of the United States. Perhaps the federal government should try it sometime.

A flag doesnt cause someone to sit in a prayer meeting for an hour and then stand up and shoot people.

Multiculturalism, if its logic is fully played out, is the ideology of national suicide.

Practices were tough.

A female professional athlete has to have the whole package, as opposed to a guy who can just be good at sport. You have to have a job or go to uni or do three sports instead of one, you have to be a standout.

I have an immigrant story. Most people come here for economic reasons, or religious reasons, or racial reasons, or gender reasons, or one of those things. I had a good job in Paris, but America was, and still is, the golden fleece. And I've done very well!

You have so much to share, you have so much to tell, you have so much you want to expose, so much that's inside that you've learned from that life period. There are really very few people I can share that with.

This discovery convinced me of the power of crystallography and led me to continue in this field.

People haven't seen enough of me. My fights haven't gone the distance, and people have a lot of questions. I want to find out for myself as much as the people do. I want to find out what I can do.

Do you love me because I'm beautiful, or am I am beautiful because you love me?

It's okay to take the food out of the mouths of the citizens from a government that's plotting an attack directly on American soil.

My close-up was magnificent!

Diplomacy is fundamentally working with people bringing people together to deal with difficult issues.

It takes a lot of selfish time to make music.

You have to let the viewers come away with their own conclusions. If you dictate what they should think, you've lost it.

My theory is because I'm Asian and white I sort of look like the future. I'm the melting pot.

I don't want to be someone's entertainment.

The universe began in an instant, is expanding, and exhibits design, order, and complexity. Every effect must have a Cause, and design must have a Designer.

I love Beyonce.

Most of my act is improvisation. I'm inspired for the moment. Standing there in front of 2,000 or 3,000 people you don't know can be pretty inspiring.

For a dear daughter Heres a wish for happiness And many dreams come true Not only on your special day But always all life through Happy Birthday

I think it shows that if you have one group of people doing it, you'll get another group of people doing it.

Mother Firefly is the kind of character I've always wanted to play. She's larger than life, terribly tragic, and capable of a lot of love.

You have the freedom to be yourself, your true self, here and now, and nothing can stand in your way.

I went to Holland Christian High School in Holland, Michigan, and to Calvin College in Grand Rapids, Michigan.