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.

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.

As the family goes, so go the children.

The steady expansion of welfare programs can be taken as a measure of the steady disintegration of the Negro family structure over the past generation in the United States.

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

The United States in the 1980s may be the first society in history in which children are distinctly worse off than adults.

The single most exciting thing you encounter in government is competence, because it's so rare.