A White House dinner is the American family assembled, from labor leaders to billionaires, actors, architects, academicians and athletes.

They were athletes, and they were leaders and competitors. That's the parallel, ... The other parallel is that none of them could throw, so it made it easy for us to know they weren't quarterbacks. They helped us in the evaluation process.

We try to refer to them constantly. They were fantastic athletes and leaders and they left a trail of how to run in practice and how things should be done.

The legions of reporters who cover politics don't want to quit the clash and thunder of electoral combat for the dry duty of analyzing the federal budget. As a consequence, we have created the perpetual presidential campaign.

[He is] television's sultan of splutter.

The legions of reporters who cover politics don't want to quit the clash and thunder of electoral combat for the dry duty of analyzing the federal budget. As a consequence, we have created the perpetual presidential campaign.