So the Clinton-Gore era culminates with an election as stained as the blue dress, a Democratic chorus complaining that the Constitution should not be the controlling legal authority, and Clinton's understudy dispatching lawyers to litigate this: It depends on what the meaning of 'vote' is.

All politicians are to some extent salesmen.

I say statecraft is soulcraft. Just as all education is moral education because learning conditions conduct, most legislation is moral legislations because it conditions the action and the thought of the nation in broad and important spheres in life.

One radical free spirit nonconformist is pretty much like another.

Voters cannot hold officials responsible if they do not know what government is doing, or which parts of government are doing what.

The Berlin Wall is the defining achievement of socialism.

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