Conservatives used to believe in confronting hard truths, not succumbing to comforting fairy tales. Some still do.

Intelligence is called the world's second oldest profession for a reason. Everyone does it.

Culture follows power.

Thanks to the Communist Party of China, we now know the path to poverty alleviation is Capitalism.

Having your fiscal house in order and having a more manageable macro-economic future is going to be very useful in creating growth.

I don't want to paint a picture of total gloom and doom.

What we see today is an American economy that has boomed because of policies and developments of the 1950s and '60s: the interstate-highway system, massive funding for science and technology, a public-education system that was the envy of the world and generous immigration policies.