Hugh Sidey

A sense of humor... is needed armor. Joy in one's heart and some laughter on one's lips is a sign th ...

A sense of humor is needed armor.

We love the blather and boast, the charge and counter-charge of campaigning. Governing is a tougher ...

Bureaucrats are the only people in the world who can say absolutely nothing and mean it.

Reagan "has conducted an arms race on earth," boomed Mondale. A race generally implies two parties. ...

“In this era of world leadership, the metal detector is the altar and the minicam may be god.”

“In just 20 years terrorism, communications, the jet plane and the increase of wealth and knowledg ...

“A sense of humor... is needed armor. Joy in one's heart and some laughter on one's lips is a sign ...

“A White House dinner is the American family assembled, from labor leaders to billionaires, actors ...

“They can see the brave silhouette from almost anywhere in the District of Columbia and use it as ...

“I simply liked him too much.”

“The problems seem so easy out there on the stump. Deficits shrink with a rhetorical flourish.”

“China's Premier Zhao Ziyang, for all of his billion constituents, seemed in the evening's lovely ...

“The prime minister found something hopeful in the man's eyes and manner. The 30 or so people who ...

“The Corn Belt is like John Bunyan's idyllic Beulah-or a dark Gehenna.”