The most important business of one generation is the raising of the next generation. Nothing else you do in life will be as deeply satisfying.

A politician's words reveal less about what he thinks about his subject than what he thinks about his audience.

When liberals advocate a value-added tax, conservatives should respond: Taxing consumption has merits, so we will consider it - after the 16th Amendment is repealed.

Barack Obama, who might be mercifully closing the Clinton parenthesis in presidential history, is refreshingly cerebral amid this recrudescence of the paranoid style in American politics. He is the un-Edwards and un-Huckabee - an adult aiming to reform the real world rather than an adolescent fantasizing mock-heroic 'fights' against fictitious villains in a left-wing cartoon version of this country.

There is no reason to think today's levels of [drug] addiction are anywhere near the levels that would be reached under legalization.

As Aristotle said, happiness is not a condition that is produced or stands on its own; rather, it is a frame of mind that accompanies an activity. But another frame of mind comes first. It is a steely determination to do well.

Conservatives define themselves in terms of what they oppose.