If there were 10,000 U.S. forces ashore [in Lebanon], authorized to move about, there would be less risk to American lives than there is with an immobile force of 1,300.

The business of America is not business. Neither is it war. The business of america is justice and securing the blessings of liberty.

For as long as I can remember the slogan has been ... the federal government ought to behave more like families, because families balance their budgets. It turns out that families looked around and said, "You know what? Let's behave more like the government!"

Americans are conservative. What they want to conserve is the New Deal.

Perhaps the soundest advice for parents is: Lighten up. People have been raising children for approximately as long as there have been people.

[O]rganized violence punctuated by committee meetings.

(Pete) Rose's coming clean is the most soiled conversion of convenience since ... well, Aug. 17, 1998, when DNA evidence caused Bill Clinton to undergo a memory clarification. On the diamond, no one ever wrung more success from less natural talent than Rose did. But his second autobiography - which refutes the first - makes worse the mess he has made.