One of the things we're all going to have to discover, establishment is just an abusive term for institutions. It's institutions that keep us free.

If we say something often enough, we come to believe it. We don't usually delude others until after we have first deluded ourselves.

We, as conservative intellectuals, should not be in the business of making excuses for bad parliamentary decisions by Republican leaders in Congress.

There are a lot of wonderful people in America who shouldn't be on the Supreme Court - and a lot who should be on the court who aren't such wonderful people.

What I say is I am somebody who cares about conservative ideas. I want to see them implemented in governance.

An American-led overthrow of Saddam Hussein - and the replacement of the radical Baathist dictatorship with a new government more closely aligned with the United States would put America more wholly in charge of the region than any power since the Ottomans, or maybe even the Romans.

The five million people who watch cable news are the political nation, the people who really care.