If you subsidize apples, you get more apples; if you subsidize unemployment, you get more of it.

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

Two decades ago, however, socialism and communism died rudely, then were buried forever by the empirical demonstration of the superiority of market capitalism everywhere from Thatcher's England to Deng's China, where just the partial abolition of socialism lifted more people out of poverty more rapidly than ever in human history.

Identity politics is the mother's milk of the Democratic Left.

Science has everything to say about what is possible. Science has nothing to say about what is permissible.

The peasants have seen the future - Greece and France - and concluded that it does not work. Hence their opposition to Obama's proudly transformational New Foundation agenda. Their logic is impeccable: Only the most blinkered intellectual could be attempting to introduce social democracy to America precisely when the world's foremost exemplar of that model - Europe - is in chaotic meltdown.

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