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I believe in Jesus Christ.
Every president makes the Oval Office theirs.
The math of durability in McCain's life is extraordinary.
There are a lot of plans out there for fixing health care.
The Chinese, our allies, have been allies with North Korea.
You're basically like glass: People see the candidates through you.
Some of us do talk about women like objects, which dehumanizes them.
Officials in every White House crowbar the facts to make their cases.
President-elect Trump says he's not even sure the Russians did the hacking.
My instincts for asking questions is to press but not to be a jerk about it.
It's hard to say what the Founding Fathers would think of the modern presidency.
A picture excites the love of parenting that comes through meditation on a child.
If people feel like the boss doesn't respect them, they don't stretch for the boss.
We've seen, in Washington, both sides say they don't want to give up much of anything.
When I was first asked to be on 'Washington Week', I never prepared more for an appearance.
Politics is not the nicest business, but there are still times when people do the right thing.
George W. Bush said the reason the Oval Office is round is there are no corners you can hide in.
Raymond Shaw is the kindest, bravest, warmest, most wonderful human being I've ever known in my life.
There's kind of a Tom Harkin aspect to Bernie Sanders, even though Harkin is supporting Secretary Clinton.
Michael Flynn was forced to resign, we are told, because he told a big lie. But what about the little ones?
A campaign gives you focus. You wake up to a different hotel alarm clock every day, but you know your mission.
A president cannot grow a long-term lack of trust in someone with whom they had full confidence the day before.
Campaigns maybe encourage us to pay attention to attributes that maybe aren't that important in the presidency.
Mother's Day is a welcome event in partisan times. Nearly everyone agrees that we should show mothers gratitude.
Would most politicians have gone to a meeting with someone advertised as being an agent of the Russian government?
Mom would talk about Eric Sevareid and Murrow and Howard K. Smith the way other parents talk about sports figures.
One of the roles of the press is to make sure that the president, in the voice of the people, is telling the truth.
For Hillary Clinton, Iowa was a tough state for her in 2008, and she's put a lot of effort into fixing those mistakes.
When former Defense Secretary Robert Gates wrote his recent book, 'Duty', it was full of tough assessments and candor.
Presidents have to learn how to adapt. Every president comes into the job; it's different than they expect. They must adapt.
You lose yourself in the to-do list and never tackle those big things you promised you would when the campaign came to an end.
One of the worries about a presidency is that everybody tells you yes. Nobody helps you figure out where your blind spots are.
I am always looking for material - whether for my notebooks or for Twitter or Instagram - which means I'm looking for meaning.
When the news broke that John McCain had been diagnosed with brain cancer, the outpouring of well wishes all hailed his toughness.
One of the ways usually that you build a bipartisan agreement is one side gives up a little, and the other side gives up a little.
Barack Obama's convention speech in 2004 had made him a political star, and he arrived in Iowa to crowds unseen in caucus history.
During the 2008 campaign, Hillary Clinton ran a blunt television ad asking whether Barack Obama could handle a foreign policy crisis.
In order for a president to be transformational, the old order has to fall as the orthodoxies that kept it in power exhaust themselves.
In addition to surviving the Forrestal, McCain has survived three other plane disasters, including being shot down over enemy territory.
That's what politics is. It's the story of what's happening, what does it mean, what's the conclusion, who are the interesting characters?
The 2008 battle in Iowa for the Democratic caucus was perhaps the most titanic single nominating contest in the history of modern politics.
Using the term 'locker room talk' blurs the line between what is criminal and what is simply oafish. That's not a line anyone should want blurred.
There is a basic idea to this fighting spirit: that there are standards worth devoting yourself to that are more important than your self-interest.
When I interviewed John McCain in 2000 about whether he had taken medication for his anger, I remember thinking, 'Let's see how this is going to work.'
When Barack Obama was asked about his lack of executive experience in 2008, he pointed to his successful campaign as proof he could manage the presidency.
My children are vampires. I don't mean that they are going to dress as vampires for Halloween. I mean that, like vampires, they cannot be captured on film.
The locker rooms that Donald Trump is in are not at the cut-rate gym with the broken treadmills - they are at his swish golf clubs. They are places of stature.
In the 2012 campaign, the president successfully transformed the most intense conservative positions into liabilities on immigration and the role of government.
Today, campaigning isn't an 'interruption' but a permanent condition. Indeed, if you are a successful campaigner, it's expected you'll be a successful president.
One of the things that voters have said about Donald Trump, since he has no government experience, is that he will be able to surround himself with good advisers.