"I know that you'd rather walk through a furnace in a gasoline suit than consider the possibility that John Kerry would lose Ohio."

“Rather’s Familiar Quotations” [Dan Rather] in The Atlantic Monthly March 2005

"It was said that the noble Don Quixote de la Mancha had been the last of the true knights. After his death, his trusted sword and his armour were sold to pay his debts. But somehow or other that sword seems to have fallen into the hands of a number of men. Washington carried it during the hopeless days of Valley Forge. It was the only defence of Gordon, when he had refused to desert the people who had been entrusted to his care, and stayed to meet his death in the besieged fortress of Khartoum. And I am not quite sure but that it proved of invaluable strength in winning the Great War."

Hendrick Van Loon The Story of Mankind

In my latest LooniePolitics column I argue that while incumbent parties traditionally lose seats in U.S. midterm elections, the Democrats bring plenty of flaws to 2018 to offset those of the GOP.

“In his new memoirs, Decision Points, George W. Bush...  tells of one summer job on a cattle ranch in which the foreman derided those who were ‘Book smart, sidewalk stupid.’"

William Watson in Ottawa Citizen December 7, 2010

In my latest National Post column I say it's easy to criticize Trump's immigration policy, hard to improve on it, and fatuous to do only the easy part