Rich Lowry

“Al Gore adopted three utterly different personas in three national presidential debates.”

“Clinton's fakery was so deft and deeply ingrained that it was impossible to tell where it ended and the real Bill Clinton began. This constituted a kind of political genius.”

“There's no wobble in Bush. If anything, the opposite. Right after hello, the next words out of his mouth are: I've never been more convinced that the decisions I made are the right decisions.”

“Al Gore's performances could be a case study in abnormal-psychology classes.”

“When they are treated, the seriously mentally ill aren't more violent than the general population. If untreated, though, they are.”

“Because liberalism typically doesn't sell in American presidential politics, liberal candidates tend to run as culturally conservative centrists.”

“Bill Clinton was a liberal who could appeal to conservative-leaning Bubba voters.”

“France will always be France no matter what, but America involves striving toward an ideal.”

“You have to check out 'March of the Penguins'. Penguins are the really ideal example of monogamy.”

“Almost all political campaigns involve falsity and playacting.”

“Parents are the most likely to be victims of the violence of their mentally ill children.”

“When my dad was badly weakened by the flu and my mom wanted to call an ambulance to take him to the emergency room, he wouldn't go unless he could shave first and change into a nice shirt and a pair of slacks.”

“Calculation has its advantages, but no one likes naked calculation.”

“The debate about the war seems pretty robust and free. Many publications, from the New Yorker to the Nation, feel perfectly comfortable printing anti-American articles and that's fine. That's what the First Amendment is all about.”

“If Bill was all id, Hillary is all superego.”

“John Kerry couldn't even order a Philly cheesesteak properly.”

“Comedians still make fun of Bill's out-of-control appetites, but with Hillary, the mockery is about how she lets nothing be out of control.”

“Message to Obama: Fighting the Clinton machine won't be as easy as picking up favorable press clips.”

“Bush's faith in the rightness of his strategy in the broader war is deep-seated. It is a product of faith.”

“It is Hillary's lot in life not to be able to fake it well.”