The totalitarian, to me, is the enemy - the one that's absolute, the one that wants control over the inside of your head, not just your actions and your taxes.

I don't envy or much respect people who are completely politicised.

I've been to Uganda and to North Korea and to Eritrea, countless horror spots around the world.

[P]erhaps you notice how the denial is so often the preface to the justification.

Terrorism is the tactic of demanding the impossible, and demanding it at gunpoint.

If I'm in a political argument, I think I can, with reasonable accuracy and without boasting, put the other person's side of the case at least as well as they could. One has to be able to say that in any well-conducted argument.

One can't indefinitely do for somebody what he is reluctant to do for himself.