My experience is that if the military didn't want to use force and was confronted with a president that did, the military would come back with what I would call the 'bomb Moscow' scenario. They would say it had to be done with conditions that were so extreme, you obviously wouldn't do it.

Terrorism is not a matter that can be left to law enforcement, with its deliberative process, built-in delays, and safeguards that may let the prisoner go free on procedural grounds.

Open political and economic systems have been gaining ground and there's a good reason for it. They work better.

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.

He who walks in the middle of the road gets hit from both sides.

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

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