Freedom means the freedom to behave coarsely, basely, foolishly.

The education of this president [Obama] is a protracted and often amusing process . . . as he continues to alight upon the obvious with a sense of profound and original discovery.

Freedom is the silence of the law.

The Soviet Union tried for 70 years to plant Marxism with bayonets in Eastern Europe. Today there are more Marxists on the Harvard faculty than there are in Eastern Europe.

The strongest continuous thread in America's political tradition is skepticism about government.

I don't think anyone has ever announced running for president that they want to change the Bill of Rights.

It is no exaggeration to conclude that the Internet has achieved, and continues to achieve, the most participatory marketplace of mass speech that this country - and indeed the world - has yet seen.