The legitimacy of a war is not established by how it is organized but by what it achieves.

Bragging about what a good deal you got is one of the many great art forms that my people, the Jews, have introduced to American culture.

Putin has been - and with a lot of the groups, the conservative groups, the more extreme conservative groups that underlie Trump, he's a bit of a hero because he speaks for traditional values, he's against the global institutions.

I think charter schools, choice, and frankly school standards need a champion.

Britain is blessed with a functioning political culture. It is dominated by people who live in London and who have often known each other since prep school. This makes it gossipy and often incestuous.

We have rapidly increasing technology, which is making life very good for people who are good at using words, and not so good for people who are not good at using words.

We pretend to be a middle class, democratic nation, but in reality we love our blue bloods. ... We love the prep school manners, the aristocratic calm, the Skull and Bones mystery, the dappled lawns stretching before New England summer homes. How else can be explained the Bush vs. Kerry match-up that confronts us this year?