The Democratic party today is not so much a political party as a milling herd, and the herd is easily stampeded.

One is more admired for claiming to do good than for proving to be right.

Those who believe patriotism to be the last refuge of the scoundrel have underestimated compassion.

[A]n Obama presidency would be an amusing approximation of the Carter administration, complete with vaporous moralizing and foreign policy bungling.

The Democratic party today is not so much a political party as a milling herd, and the herd is easily stampeded.

Popular journalists resort to the name Nixon to galvanize feelings that remain at rest even when the name Stalin is mentioned.

For the most part neoconservatives are people who were once liberals but sobered up. The neoliberal is one who has always been a liberal but now replaces the sentimental pieties with brusque slogans ("High-Tech!") and unpronounceable programs. All else stays the same.