I Got Into Journalism Because I Came

I Believe That Poverty Is Often The Result Of Inappropriate Behavior - Out-of-wedlock Births, Dropping Out Of School, Crime And Drugs - Which Should Not Be Rewarded. But Often It Isn't, And Common Decency Requires That We Take Care Of The Least Of These.

Bush The Elder's Stature As President Grows With Every Passing Year. He Was The Finest Foreign Policy President I've Ever Covered And A Man Who Defied His Party On Tax Increases While Imposing Budget Restrictions On The Democrats.

Affirmative Action Was Always Racial Justice On The Cheap.

Bush Promised A Foreign Policy Of Humility And A Domestic Policy Of Compassion. He Has Given Us A Foreign Policy Of Arrogance And A Domestic Policy That Is Cynical, Myopic And Cruel.

What Do You Do In A Novel? You Take Recognizable Characters From Your Own Life, And You Fantasize About What They're Really Like.