We're not free because other people are nice, maybe other people aren't nice that day. We're free because we expect the institutions of government to work impersonally. That we expect people in government to understand they don't work for the president or the prime minister, they work for the government. And the government is always there.

Nobody ever won an election by spitting at his political opponents.

So if I have two pieces of cake, do I have twice as good an experience as the first piece of cake? One of the things I've found in life is that the first piece of cake is the best.

Partly because of the desperate economic situation in the country, what were once the leading institutions of conservatism are constrained.

Republicans have to move to a point of greater unity.

And that is how we intend to destroy the enemy!" The superior shakes his head wearily. "Young man, the Soviets are our adversary. The Navy is the enemy.

I am really and truly frightened by the collapse of support for the Republican Party by the young and the educated.