Politicians wanted to mine the Grand Canyon for zinc and copper, and Theodore Roosevelt said, 'No.'

I'm not a partisan.

February was always the cruelest month for Hunter S. Thompson. An avid NFL fan, Hunter traditionally embraced the Super Bowl in January as the high-water mark of his year.

Most Americans didn’t distinguish fame from accomplishment.

John McPhee’s 1989 book The Control of Nature, for.

John Kerry doesn’t think in terms of black-and-white. He’s all gray, and he looks at all sides of the issues. That makes people think he likes to be devil’s advocate. Whatever you say, he’ll challenge you on.

John Kerry can be absolutely ruthless. I would not want to be on his enemies list when he’s ready to go after you.

It didn’t seem to matter that Reagan made his heartfelt endorsements of traditional family values despite being divorced and so alienated from his own children that one of them would write a book about what a rotten father he had been; by the same token, the president’s failure to have made regular or even occasional visits to church hardly dimmed his appeal for the resurgent religious right.

History will remember the Superdome debacle – caused by the dearth of evacuation buses – as “Nagin’s Folly,” mayoral incompetence of the first order.

If life were fattening, Walter Cronkite would weigh 500 pounds.