The South is the last place with a sense of place.

The public, more often than not, will forgive mistakes, but it will not forgive trying to wiggle out of one.

I gave 738 Rotary Club speeches, and it was just driving me crazy, so someone said, 'Why don't you charge money?'

A little irreverence is always important to being a columnist. I try to do that.

When President Obama was in the Senate, when he was a U.S. senator, he voted against raising the debt ceiling. And he said it was a lack of leadership that had brought us to this point.

You can be very feminine and be a leader. Christine Lagarde, she's very chic and she dresses very well, and she's a woman. And she has a lot of power.

When the world faces its biggest challenges, it looks to Britain to show the strong leadership needed to overcome them.

Most North Americans know that human-caused global warming is real, even if political leaders don't always reflect or act on that knowledge.