“... with Douglas Ginsburg, and it almost worked with Clarence Thomas: who would be next? President Clinton did not want to find out. He filled two seats during his first two years in office, when Senate Democrats outnumbered Republicans by 56 to 44. But he refused to nominate a liberal version of Bork who would proudly pledge to bring back the Warren ...”

“... only overturned in May 2014. That didn’t stop the South Dakota State Senate from passing a bill in February requiring transgender students to use locker rooms and toilets that correspond to their birth-assigned gender, on the grounds that male-to-female transsexuals sneaking into women’s toilets were a danger to women (similar legislation has been ...”

“... are going to have a hard time keeping up. Really they have no idea. 1993 wasn’t so long ago; Bill Clinton was president, a fact that the Columbia editors boast about having been able to include at the last moment (the last moment here meaning the weeks or months between the book’s being set and its arriving in the shops or in the hands of ...”

“... including Nora Ephron, Salman Rushdie and Hillary Rodham, who she thought was too good for Bill Clinton. She died of cancer at home on 23 July 1996. ‘It is so ODD to be dying,’ she wrote, from her downstairs bedroom to Bob, who was asleep upstairs. ‘I must just jot a few thoughts … I’ve SO enjoyed life with you.’Debo thought Decca had ...”

“... to call it ‘presence’, comparing Mourinho to charismatic but hardly swoon-inducing men like Bill Shankly and Brian Clough. What he has in common with Clough and Shankly is that the players appear desperate to do whatever it takes to win his approval, like schoolgirls fighting for an approving glance from their favourite teacher. Barclay turns to Desmond ...”

“... joke in her autobiography, My Name Is Barbra, to explain why she felt a ‘certain kinship’ with Bill Clinton during his presidency. ‘People can take an ounce of truth and turn it into a gallon of lies,’ she says. ‘I’m a truth-teller, and I’ve been crucified for it many times.’ Like Jesus, Streisand exists mostly as the subject of other ...”

“... and student votes, and more than $4 billion in tax cuts. All of them disparaged Hillary Clinton but avoided mentioning Trump by name. Most of the crowd was docile, happy to be served a lunch of pulled-pork sandwiches and crisps, but a vocal minority was incensed at Trump’s absence. The rally was a fundraiser – I had purchased a ticket for the ...”

“... by Reagan’s dog-whistles about ‘welfare queens’, and then came under intensive attack by Bill Clinton, America’s ‘first black president’. An approving chorus was provided by the New Republic, once the main organ of American progressivism, as well as the National Review and the New York Times. After the collapse of communism, and the moral ...”

“... during his failed return this year he would coo at audiences and ask whether they truly loved him. Bill Clinton once said that talking to Sharif on the phone you could practically hear him sweating. The Sharif brothers have kept any mutual acrimony far from public view, but there must be some. Nawaz Sharif’s daughter Maryam Nawaz Sharif, who cultivates ...”

“... or presidential campaigns, and Obama needs all the friends he can get: he is trailing Hillary Clinton nationally by nearly 20 per cent and is 30 points behind in California. You’d think Obama would be doing better, particularly out here in California, one of the more progressive of the blue states, and where youth, good looks and fast celebrity count ...”

“... The BBC, whose coverage of British politics looks increasingly lame, has been hopeless at Obama v. Clinton. It’s not enough any longer for a correspondent to paint some local colour about the weather or the quirks of the voting system before asking a seasoned observer from the New York Times or Washington Post to explain to a British audience what it all ...”

“... you had to acknowledge his charisma, or at least that others felt its sway. It’s the same with Clinton today: even if you loathe him for his duplicity, you have to admit his intelligence. Media puff-pieces aside (why is it that so many journalists are soft on Bush? Do they still cower before the accusation of liberal bias? Where are the liberal media? Will ...”

“... poverty and while racism that undergirded the Reagan/Bush regime. Garry Wills is a partisan of Bill and Hillary Rodham Clinton. Lincoln at Gettysburg is authentic history, and also political allegory. Speaking to the present, it wishes that nationalism and war had not been the instruments of ending slavery, that words ...”

“... Friedman regards himself as an integrationist safety-netter, a position he says is occupied by Bill Clinton. The argument he advances in its favour is essentially a globalisation of one of the old arguments for social democracy: I believe that you dare not be a globaliser today without being a social democrat (that is, a safety-netter), because if ...”

“... Obama’s 2012 re-election campaign targeted Mitt Romney’s background in private equity, while Bill de Blasio came from behind to become the first Democratic mayor of New York in two decades running against the legacy of the three-term mayor, the billionaire Michael Bloomberg. Thomas Piketty’s unexpected blockbuster made talk of class conflict safe for ...”