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

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.

Secrecy is for losers.

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

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

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.

Citizen participation is a device whereby public officials induce nonpublic individuals to act in a way the officials desire.