When everyone in America knows you're in a dreadful position, admit you're in a dreadful position. Don't lie about it and make them roll their eyes, tell the truth and make them blink.
This is the Democratic paradox: You want so much to run America and yet you seem not so fond of Americans.
The biggest improvement in the flow of information in America in our lifetimes is that no single group controls the news anymore.
You can get so well educated in America that your thoughts become detached from common sense. You can get so complicated in your thinking that the obvious isn't real to you anymore.
You don't have to be old in America to say of a world you lived in: 'that world is gone.'
You don't have to be old in America to say of a world you lived in: That world is gone.