Whenever you discuss politics, it is always better to use individual names rather then the term neocon.

So little of what makes a democracy work is written down. So much of it is just the things you don't do. There are a lot of things that a prime minister or a president can do and they don't do them because it never occurs to them to do them.

[In politics,] when there is no reason to speak, there is a reason not to speak.

Maybe it's true that people with less extreme views who are also interested in public affairs have been driven out by a marketplace that doesn't offer them anything of the tone they want to listen to.

Crown Prince Rupprecht, the heir to the throne of Bavaria who commanded the army group facing the British at the Somme, was the senior direct lineal heir of James Stuart, the Old Pretender of 1715. Had there been any Jacobites left in Britain in 1916, they would have had to regard this south German prince as their rightful king.

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.

People need to understand that in Washington, the process is the punishment.