Concerning [postmodern] ideas, let us not mince words. The ideas are profoundly dangerous. They subvert our civilization by denying that truth is found by conscientious attempts accurately to portray a reality that exists independently of our perception or attitudes or other attributes such as race, ethnicity, sex or class.

The future is usually just like the past- right up to the moment when it isn't.

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

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

Today it would be progress if everyone would stop talking about values. Instead, let us talk, as the Founders did, about virtues.

On a throne at the center of a sense of humor sits a capacity for irony. All wit rests on a cheerful awareness of life's incongruities. It is a gentling awareness, and no politician without it should be allowed near power.

A properly functioning free market system does not spring spontaneously from society's soil as crabgrass springs from suburban lawns. Rather, it is a complex creation of laws and mores... Capitalism is a government program.