If you’ve got some news that you don’t want to get noticed, put it out Friday afternoon 4:00 pm.

There is a cannibalism that’s loose in our society in which public figures such as the Clintons could try to come into this town and do something good for this country and then they get hammered away even though they’re trying to do the right thing.

At the heart of leadership is the leader’s relationship with followers. People will entrust their hopes and dreams to another person only if they think the other is a reliable vessel.

A leader’s role is to raise people’s aspirations for what they can become and to release their energies so they will try to get there.

You can slice and dice this thing any way you want, but I still think it's politically damaging for the administration.

You can second-guess this all you want ... but there's no question that the four days that elapsed that we had this mini-storm that blew up was embarrassing for the vice president and embarrassing for the president.

How in heaven's name can a nation with a $1 trillion surplus threaten so much scientific research so vital to its future?

I don't think there's any other president in the modern era that has seen this kind of stability.

If people stay that long, group-think can set in, and that's dangerous for a president.

I'm told by some people close to him that this will not be a Kerry-bashing speech. But he's not going to simply rally around Bush. Indeed it's going to be the story of an immigrant coming to this country and finding a country that's embraced him and a party that's embraced him.