The conservative idea is not that government has no role. You might have argued that in the thirties when conservatives opposed the New Deal.

I envy people who write easily. I enjoy the process, but it's not easeful for me.

Preemption is a kind of pre-deterrence that stops the threat at an earlier, safer stage.

Whenever you're faced with an explanation of what's going on in Washington, the choice between incompetence and conspiracy, always choose incompetence.

After the Soviet collapse, Marxism is a relic, a pathetic anachronism reduced to its last redoubts: North Korea, Cuba, and the English departments of the more expensive American universities.

You can have the most advanced and efflorescent of cultures. Get your politics wrong, however, and everything stands to be swept away. This is not ancient history. This is Germany 1933... Politics is the moat, the walls, beyond which lie the barbarians. Fail to keep them at bay, and everything burns.

Under our constitutional system, the executive executes the laws that Congress has passed. It should not be executing laws that Congress has rejected.