If the newspapers of a country are filled with good news, the jails of that country will be filled with good people.

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.

There is one unmistakable lesson in American history; a community that allows a large number of young men to grow up in broken families, dominated by women, never acquiring any stable relationship to male authority, never acquiring any set of rational expectations about the future - that community asks for and gets chaos.

When a person goes to a country and finds their newspapers filled with nothing but good news, he can bet there are good men in jail.

If the newspapers of a country are filled with good news, the jails of that country will be filled with good people.

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.

Secrecy is for losers. For people who do not know how important the information really is.