The more laws that governments pass, the less individual freedom there is. Any student of history will tell you that. Totalitarian countries ban pretty much everything.

There is little anyone can do with fanatics. Reasoning with them is a fool's errand. Avoiding them is mandatory.

At the end of the day, every child has learned the Lesson of Spin: Almost every wrong action can be stripped of consequences, along with the need for feelings of guilt and remorse.

Jobs that cannot be delivered must never be promised. It's unfair to raise people's hopes that way.

Communicated in the right way, Judeo-Christian philosophy and the religions that uphold it bind a citizenry together in pursuit of a just and generous society.

It won't take weeks... Our military machine will crush Iraq in a matter of days and there's no question that it will.

Tom Hanks is a huge superstar. And people tell me he's a very nice guy, not arrogant, not an entitlement guy. But very quietly, Mr. Hanks has become a left-wing power player in Hollywood.