There was a time when that statement, from a president to a House Speaker, would be enough. Those days are long in the rearview mirror. - Bill Clinton

Savagery in the quest for power is older than the Bible, but some of my opponents really hate my guts. They don’t just want to run me out of office. They won’t be satisfied unless I’m sent to prison, drawn and quartered, and erased from the history books. Hell, if they had their way, they’d probably burn down my house in North Carolina and spit on my wife’s grave.

Remembering the words of Ranko, her first teacher, the toothpick jutting out from the side of his mouth, his fiery red, stalklike hair — a scarecrow whose hair caught fire, as he once described himself.

We’re using modern technology to revert to primitive kinds of human relations.