Yet, it ought to be obvious that good music generally occupies a higher plane that mere politics. Great writers can express moods through melody and capture experiences we share most powerfully – love, lust, longing; joy, rage, fear; triumph, yearning and confusion.

One of the problems with NPR is that there is so much political correctness that if you’ve got a name that looks like it was made up by Rudyard Kipling, you’ve got a better chance of getting hired. I’m a white guy named Tony Snow, for heaven’s sake. That’s as white as it goes.

When politicians rush to fix things, it’s a sure sign that either the intended patient is dead or fully healed.

The secret of learning to be sick is this: Illness doesn’t make you less of what you were. You are still you.

We’ve got to rebuild human hearts – and persuade people that hope isn’t just possible, but essential.

Investigators have discovered that dogs can laugh, which can’t be too big of a surprise.

Well, we can’t afford blindness anymore. There are tens of thousands of thugs who loathe liberty and love death, and want to annihilate Western civilization.

Many people don’t give a rip about politics and know as much about public affairs as they know about the topography of Pluto.

I hate to tell you, but it’s not always pretty up there on Capitol Hill and there have been other scandals as you know that have been more than simply naughty e-mails.

Somewhere near you, somebody right now is trying to help the indigent and poor – providing food, shelter, clothing or simple kindness.