Post-Watergate morality, by which anything left private is taken as presumptive evidence of wrongdoing.

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

Washington is the only place in the world where a gaffe is when a politician accidently speaks the truth.

I think if you're going to master policy, especially world affairs, you've got to know history.

Loyalty to the President is great, but loyalty to truth, integrity, and country is even better.

History is not just cruel. It is witty.

This week, Iranian-backed Houthi rebels seized control of the Yemeni government, heretofore pro-American. In September, they overran Sanaa, the capital. On Tuesday, they seized the presidential palace. On Thursday, they forced the president to resign.