The habit of going to your congressman's town hall and asking questions, that's powerful in a way that shouting slogans or getting arrested is not, that is completely counterproductive.

Republicans originally thought that Fox worked for us, and now we are discovering we work for Fox

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

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

A novel makes it possible to understand not just events, but the people who control the events; not only their choices, but also their motives.

If right and left are competing to be the biggest victim, who is competing to be the government?

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.