2012

I'd like to vote for the candidate similar to the one the Right absurdly claims Obama is.

My guest Newt Gingrich shut down the government during the Clinton administration. I'll ask him when it's gonna start working again.

When journalists are 'accused' of being 'advocates', that means: challenging and deviating from DC orthodoxies.

They're called 'facts', and my role is to amplify those, not cheerlead. And I don't care at all what you think of my motives.

OK, publishing a book and releasing a movie is all very well, but Tottenham beating Man. U. 3-2... priceless.

The hallmark of an authoritarian idiot is yelling TERRORIST-LOVER! at anyone questioning the definition of Terrorist.

Terrorist', noun: 1. Someone my government tells me is a terrorist; 2. Someone my President decides to kill.

Terrorism': the word that means nothing, yet justifies everything.

And I saw just the other day, in Mentor, Ohio, where a father told the story of his 8-year-old daughter, whose long battle with leukemia nearly cost their family everything had it not been for the health care reform passing just a few months before the insurance company was about to stop paying for her care.I had an opportunity to not just talk to the father, but meet this incredible daughter of his. And when he spoke to the crowd listening to that father's story, every parent in that room had tears in their eyes, because we knew that little girl could be our own.

Scientists have invented a new strain of cannabis without the high. They celebrated with non-alcoholic beer and furious dry-humping.

In short, if you are using a shovel to dig yourself into a hole, a credit card company will be happy to give you a backhoe.

The oldest profession [prostitution] is the most honest, for it exposes the bare bones of what civilization is all about. It's the root of all professions.

As always, imagine how great the press corps would be if it devoted 1/1000th the energy to dissecting non-sex political wrongdoing

There hasn't been a scandal this big at the C.I.A. since (CLASSIFIED) committed (CENSORED) to (REDACTED).

It's common to go from 'crashing the gate' to guarding it.

I know whether of not your statement is true, and you know that I know whether or not it is true, because it is about me. But do you know that your statement is true? This is what I mean by passing judgment.

Going into the Republican Party National Convention, in all objective truth, our non__inning front__unners are the sorriest collection of stuffed shirts, empty suits, self__ratulatory ignorami, and outright wig__lipped ding__ongs in the history of the Republic.

To cut 1930s jobless, FDR taxed corps and rich. Govt used money to hire many millions. Worked then; would now again. Why no debate on that?