The Berlin Wall is the defining achievement of socialism.

As has been said, standards are always out of date - that is why we call them standards.

In the lexicon of the political class, the word 'sacrifice' means that the citizens are supposed to mail even more of their income to Washington so that the political class will not have to sacrifice the pleasure of spending it.

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

We have far more to fear from swift than from torpid government.

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

It has made mincemeat of Barack Obama's pose of thoughtfulness. It has demonstrated that he lacks even a rudimentary understanding of the most basic economic realities. It has dramatized environmentalism's descent into infantilism.