Nobody ever won an election by spitting at his political opponents.
Republicans originally thought that Fox worked for us and now we're discovering we work for Fox.
A presidential speech is always the work of many hands.
Speech writers are more vulnerable to vanity than any other group of people in Washington.
Events don't happen because I write a speech. I am allowed to write a speech because events are going to happen.
Whenever you discuss politics, it is always better to use individual names rather then the term neocon.
The elite isn't leading anymore. It's trapped.
People need to understand that in Washington, the process is the punishment.
As thrilling as it was, speechwriting is ultimately frustrating for someone who wants to be a writer.
In journalism I can only tell what happened. In fiction, I can show it.
Journalism can go right up to the door of the room in which the decisions are made. A novel can go inside the room - and inside the character's heads.
A novel makes it possible to understand not just events, but the people who control the events; not only their choices, but also their motives.
The five million people who watch cable news are the political nation, the people who really care.
If right and left are competing to be the biggest victim, who is competing to be the government?
What I say is I am somebody who cares about conservative ideas. I want to see them implemented in governance.
America under 30 is a more non-whites place than America over 60. And we know that non-whites and whites vote differently.
Today's Republican party is too beholden to factions generally.
If you go on TV and say there's no other country in the world where you can be born poor and become rich, you get a huge megaphone. If you tell the truth, which is that most of the studies show actually the United States is worse than anybody except Britain in upward mobility, there is no audience for you.
People who watch a lot of Fox come away knowing a lot less about important world events.
Republicans have to move to a point of greater unity.
