One of the most repellent spectacles at election times is the pretense of piety on the part of people running for office.

Nonintervention does not mean that nothing happens. It means that something else happens.

When I go to the clinic next and sit with a tube in my arm and watch the poison go in, I'm in an attitude of abject passivity. It doesn't feel like fighting at all; it just feels like submitting.

There is no English surname, however ancient and dignified, that cannot instantly be improved by the prefix ‘Spanker’.

I vote and I do jury duty.

What they [the 9/11 attackers] abominate about 'the west', to put it in a phrase, is not what western liberals don't like and can't defend about their own system, but what they do like about it and must defend: its emancipated women, its scientific inquiry, its separation of religion from the state.

The noble title of "dissident" must be earned rather than claimed; it connotes sacrifice and risk rather than mere disagreement.