Presidential Aide Mugs

'The president is unavailable, he's been so worried about the budget that he['s not sleeping...He's taking a little nap...'

"Obama didn’t get to name a Supreme Court justice during his final year. So how come Trump does?"

"Oh, I'll be bi-partisan alright, punishing both sides of the aisle."

"Nation-building never works."

Who will determine Venezuela's future?

The president's men

UK/US Free Trade Deal

Foreign Markets with Big Barriers

Mario Draghi

A Q&A with President Obama over jobs

'How can we believe anything when we can disprove everything?'

USAID Octopus Wrapping Around Globe

"Based on the feedback from advisers whom I haven't beheaded, all of my ideas are great."

US and the EU

G7 Summit Concern

We need a Europe of U-turns.

'I look forward to a bigger and bolder vision in my 2nd term.'

Public Relations: Reputations cleaned and repaired

Two Ways out of Iraq.

SAGE mentality

First you're a law student, then you're a lawyer, then you're a judge, then you're a politician, then you're a criminal.

US Credit: 'I'm down grading your credit rating...'

Rock and a Hard Place

GOP exaggerating scale of immigration, inflation and crime rates

"Massive deficit spending, enormous Federal bailouts, open borders, ridiculous earmarks, pork for everybody, intervention all over the world.... Now, why didn't I think of that?"

'Yes, it's a stupid speech, Senator, but you've got to court the stupid VOTE.'

'What I have to do first?!'

'This 'infrastructure' stuff you keep talking about -- does it have anything to do with vegetables?'

Government and Opposition

"I'm not spinning - I'm contextualizing."

"Rudy has asked me to apologize, on his behalf, for your being offended..."

"No, no, that’s in a bar, Mr. President — you can talk politics and religion here."

'Staffers don't report we're managing decline. They report we met our targets and did out job!'

"Hold everything! I just thought up a terrific loophole!"

'If you have to ask, you can't afford it.'