to show leadership and coordination and response and compassion of a nature that could affect the political dynamics of the country.

As in nature, politics abhors a vacuum. Without a strong voice for more moderate leadership, the Tea Party is filling that vacuum.

Republicans working in leadership and the trenches are largely old, white, male, out-of-touch, out of ideas, technology averse, and living in the past.

The basic market leadership is still intact. It's the nature of this market to correct in an abrupt, steep but short-lived fashion.

No less a bold and pugnacious figure than Winston Churchill broke down and was unable to finish his remarks at the sendoff of the British Expeditionary Force into the maelstrom of World War I in Europe.

Every unearnest minister is an unfaithful one.