The elite isn't leading anymore. It's trapped.

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

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

My view on candidates on money is unless it's proven that the donor stole the money, the campaign keeps the money.

I always believed as a speechwriter that if you could persuade the president to commit himself to certain words, he would feel himself committed to the ideas that underlay those words. And the big shock to me has been that although the president said the words, he just did not absorb the ideas. And that is the root of, maybe, everything.

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

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