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.

Somehow liberals have been unable to acquire from life what conservatives seem to be endowed with at birth: namely, a healthy skepticism of the powers of government agencies to do good.

The American Constitution was designed to make it hard to have too much government.

Secrecy is for losers. . . . It is time to dismantle government secrecy, this most persuasive of Cold War-era regulations. It is time to begin building the supports for the era of openness that is already upon us.

A responsible government does not triple the national debt in eight years.

Stubborn opposition to proposals often has no other basis than the complaining question, 'Why wasn't I consulted?'