Given the amount of unjust suffering and unhappiness in the world, I am deeply grateful for, sometimes even perplexed by, how much misery I have been spared.

The whole American experiment has been predicated on giving individuals as much control over their own lives as possible.

We are undermining a generation's happiness by depriving them of national identity, religious identity, and gender identity

Who has created more peace in the world, the Peace Corps or the Marine Corps?

The vast majority of those who are famous are not significant and the vast majority of those who are significant are not famous.

If they [liberals] didn't believe we were mean spirited they couldn't stay liberal. They have to believe they mean better than us, but we don't have to believe that we mean better than them. We have to believe that we do better than them. We measure morality by what happens not what is intended.

Corruption is Africa's greatest problem. Not poverty. Not lack of riches. Not racism.