The liberal left can be as rigid and destructive as any force in American life.

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.

We have the right to our own opinions, but not our own facts.

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

The great corporations of this country were not founded by ordinary people. They were founded by people with extraordinary intelligence, ambition, and aggressiveness.

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

At 14 you are still in most respects a dependent youth, in some respects a child. At 24 you are an adult. In between, extraordinary turbulences take place.