But women are always attracted to power. I do not think there could ever be a conqueror so bloody that most women would not willingly lie with him in the hope of bearing a son who would be every bit as ferocious as the father.

God, or what have you, will not be found at the far end of a syllogism, no matter how brilliantly phrased or conceived.

This separation was absolute in our original Republic. But the sky-godders do not give up easily. In the 1950s they actually got the phrase In God We Trust onto the currency, in direct violation of the First Amendment.

If the splitter of hairs has a sharp enough knife, the fact of life itself can be chopped into nothing.

Eisenhower managed to begin the Vietnam war by not following his normal instinct of staying out of mischief. In his memoirs, he tells us why we didn't honor the Geneva accords and hold elections in Vietnam: because some 80 percent of the country would have voted for Ho Chi Minh. This is very candid. The sort of thing one might have found in Stalin'smemoirs, had he not made ghosts even of ghosts.

If you want to rise in politics in the United States, there is one subject you must stay away from, and that is politics.

Our form of democracy is bribery, on the highest scale.