All politics takes place on a slippery slope. The most important four words in politics are up to a point.

Freedom means the freedom to behave coarsely, basely, foolishly.

Since the emergence of the Republican Party, only two Democratic presidents, Franklin Roosevelt and John Kennedy, have been followed by Democrats, and both FDR and JFK died in office, so their successors ran as incumbents.

Arizonans should not be judged disdainfully and from a distance by people whose closest contacts with Hispanics are with fine men and women who trim their lawns and put plates in front of them at restaurants, not with illegal immigrants passing through their backyards at 3 A.M.

Political nature abhors a vacuum, which is what often exists for a year or two in a party after it loses a presidential election.

Voters don't decide issues, they decide who will decide issues.