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

The status quo is working.

Liberty lives in protest and democracy prospers under conditions of change. When we travel about the world and come to a country whose newspapers are filled with bad news we feel that liberty lives in that land. When we come to a country whose newspapers are filled with good news, we feel differently.

There are some mistakes only someone with a Ph.D. can make.

If we get into the mind-set where the good becomes the enemy of the best, we will get nothing.

I'm a Democrat, and there are an important group of things only the government can do. But let us be clear that for most of the world, what they most need is less government.

The central conservative truth is that it is culture, not politics, that determines the success of a society. The central liberal truth is that politics can change a culture and save it from itself.