Think tanks do have points of view, and they are absolutely entitled to defend them.

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.

Canada has a real civil service, which the United States doesn't have, an independent civil service. Canada also has a stronger federal system.

The thing that sustains a strong Fox network is the thing that undermines a strong Republican party.

Reagan survived the Iran-Contra scandal because the elements of it that were illegal (aiding anti-communist Nicaraguans) were popular and the things that were unpopular (arming the Iranians) were quite legal.

The monster has escaped Elba!" "The tyrant has landed at Cannes!" "Bonaparte meets the troops." "Napoleon approaches Paris." "His Imperial Majesty has entered the capital.

Elites are inevitable in politics. That is how politics is going to work. The question is, are your elites responsible, public-spirited? Do they think about the interests of others, not just themselves? And the story of Western politics since the beginning of the century is that as elites become more separated, more selfish, as they leave behind their populations and don't think about them, they become discredited. And the people look for alternatives. But the alternative is worse. Those rules of the game protect us all. And they are more precious than almost any political outcome.