My great project is to undo the moral and intellectual damage of most universities

One of the great mind destroyers of college education is the belief that if it's very complex, it's very profound.

Big government squashes the human spirit

The more that you expect, the less happy you will be-- because if the expectations are realized you won't be grateful

I don't judge people by their theology, I judge them by their behavior

The sad fact is that if you love education, revere the life of the mind, care about the pursuit of truth, think young people need to receive wisdom from their elders, and value moral clarity, the university is the last place you would want to send your 18-year-old.

In attempting to understand 9/11, the first question asked by the world's elites - as exemplified by leading media and academics - was, 'What did America do to provoke such hatred?' Ten years later, the same people are still asking the same question. And it is as morally repulsive now as it was then. It was always on par with 'What did the Jews do to antagonize the Germans? Or 'What did blacks do to enrage lynch mobs?'