Pandaemonium was inhabited by creatures quite convinved that the great Satan had their best interests at heart. Poor little devils.

I can live with the robber barons, but how do you live with these pathological radicals?

The work of democratic government is routinely concerned with matters defined as troubles. In "The Presidency and the Press" I make the point, familiar to anyone who has flown about the world much, that the best quick test of the political nature of a regime is to read the local papers on arrival. If they are filled with bad news, you have landed in a libertarian society of some sort. If, on the other hand, the press is filled with good news, it is a fair bet that the jails will be filled with good men.

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 status quo is working.

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.