Before you get mugged by reality, take out an insurance policy. It's the Reagan way.

Negotiations are a euphemism for capitulation if the shadow of power is not cast across the bargaining table.

It was an attempt to stick the Congress's finger in King Hussein's eye.

Increasingly, the state system has been eroding. Terrorists have exploited this weakness by burrowing into the state system in order to attack it.

Obama seems to want to do something to damage rich people.

You don't get gushers of revenue by raising tax rates. You get it through expansion.

I learned in business that you had to be very careful when you told somebody that's working for you to do something, because the chances were very high he'd do it. In government, you don't have to worry about that.