Where religion is trivialized, one is unlikely to find persecution.

I distrust all multiculturalism, liberal or conservative. The Balkans amply demonstrate the perils of Balkanization.

I would write my editorials using a manual typewriter in pitch-black darkness... I would produce the whole thing without having seen the text.

We must now brace ourselves for disquisitions on peer pressure, adolescent anomie, and rage.

So a Holocaust-denying, virulently anti-Semitic, aspiring genocidist, on the verge of acquiring weapons of the apocalypse, believes that the end is not only near but nearer than the next American presidential election. (Pity the Democrats. They cannot catch a break.) This kind of man would have, to put it gently, less inhibition about starting Armageddon than a normal person.

Ideas matter. Legislative proposals matter. Slick campaigns and dazzling speeches can work for a while, but the magic always wears off.

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