Well, you know, the definition of second marriage is the triumph of hope over experience.

One radical free spirit nonconformist is pretty much like another.

Liberalism is wrong because it doesn't work. If a company is too big to fail, it is too big to exist.

No matter how deeply you distrust the government's judgment, you are too trusting.

Remember Henry Adam's jest that the succession of presidents from Washington to Grant disproved the theory of evolution?

If you seek Hamilton's monument, look around. You are living in it. We honor Jefferson, but live in Hamilton's country, a mighty industrial nation with a strong central government.

[A] re-elected McConnell, with a Republican majority, would, he says, emulate his model of majority leadership - the 16 years under a Democrat, Montana'€™s Mike Mansfield. He, like McConnell, had a low emotional metabolism but a subtle sense of the Senate's singular role in the nation's constitutional equilibrium.