Diplomacy has more to do with (credible) threats than with sweet reason. And threats from America are a lot more credible, nowadays.

As I have said, the best Bush strategy is to put Congress on TV as often as possible.

The proverbial thirteenth chime of the clock - is not only wrong itself, but calls into question everything that came before it.

You can't be halfhearted in a revolution. Values that serve well in a civil society don't work in a state of nature.

Democrats don't represent the taxpayers, they represent the tax-consumers.

[W]hen you align yourself exclusively with one party, and weaponize yourself in that party's cause, you're going to pay the price when the other party is in power. That's the price you pay for whoring yourself out.

Where the U.N. is concerned, accountability is very thin on the ground in general.