I know people see it as a meltdown, ... I think it's a sign of maturity of a movement that can have a furious fight over principle.

This nomination is a catastrophe, ... I don't think there is a way she can end up being confirmed.

I don't think Bill Bennett's a racist, though.

I think if you're going to master policy, especially world affairs, you've got to know history.

Newt Gingrich had to work hard - getting Republican candidates to sign the Contract with America - to nationalize the election that swept Republicans to victory in 1994. A Democratic anti-Tea Party campaign would do that for the Republicans - nationalize the election, gratis - in 2010.

There is a mystique about psychiatry that people think that you have some kind of a magical lens, you know, Superman's X-ray vision into the soul. One of the reasons I left psychiatry is that I didn't believe that.