I'd rather have dinner with Don King than with Mark Furhman. But then, I'm American. I have no perspective.

I traveled through South Carolina with Mark Sanford in 2000 when I covered the McCain campaign. He struck me then, as he strikes me now, as one of the most impressive people I've met in politics. I have no idea if he could win the nomination, but I think he'd be a terrific president.

There's nothing scarier than a reckless prosecutor.

Seldom has a politician left public office with more self-generated fanfare than Sen. William S. Cohen.

When it comes to scaring the bourgeoisie into showing up at the polls, nothing works better than negative advertising.

American presidential elections usually amount to a series of overcorrections: Clinton begat Bush, who produced Obama, whose lax border policies fueled the rise of Trump.