Actually, there is only one first question of government, and it is How should we live? or What kind of people do we want our citizens to be?

There is no reason to think today's levels of [drug] addiction are anywhere near the levels that would be reached under legalization.

The most important business of one generation is the raising of the next generation. Nothing else you do in life will be as deeply satisfying.

Each achieves one or both of two objectives — making liberals feel good about themselves and being good to liberal candidates.

Politicians fascinate because they constitute such a paradox; they are an elite that accomplishes mediocrity for the public good.

Creative semantics is the key to contemporary government; it consists of talking in strange tongues lest the public learn the inevitable inconveniently early.

Term limits would make Congress bolder, more independent, and less risk-averse.