There is one unmistakable lesson in American history; a community that allows a large number of young men to grow up in broken families, dominated by women, never acquiring any stable relationship to male authority, never acquiring any set of rational expectations about the future - that community asks for and gets chaos.

People who pierce the veil of money rarely return with their faculties altogether intact.

Irresponsibility breeds irresponsibility. The finances of government are so central. You'd think that would be pretty obvious.

I have no doubt that there will continue to be bumps, some serious crises indeed in our relationship with China.... Neither membership in the WTO nor normalized trade relations with the United States will magically impose the rule of law on China or institute deep-seeded respect for human rights. But it certainly has potential to advance those purposes.

To strip our past of glory is no great loss, but to deny it honor is devastating.

You are entitled to your opinion. But you are not entitled to your own facts.

The amount of violations of human rights in a country is always an inverse function of the amount of complaints about human rights violations heard from there. The greater the number of complaints being aired, the better protected are human rights in that country.