I am not religious. I do not believe that personhood is conferred upon conception. But I also do not believe that a human embryo is the moral equivalent of a hangnail and deserves no more respect than an appendix.

So far as Im concerned, Ronald Reagan was the best president. Nixon was the worst. Some of his policies were okay, but he disgraced the office.

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

It is an axiom of political life that you never raise expectations, whether in a political or military campaign, because your defeats are then magnified and your victories discounted.

A three-year diet of rubber chicken and occasional crow.

Clashes of values and the struggle for primacy constitute a constant in human history that accounts for that other constant - conflict and war.

The Iraquis can see it. The Kurds can feel it. The jihadists are counting on it.