People need religion. It's a vehicle for a moral tradition. A crucial role. Nothing can take its place.

The danger facing American Jews today is not that Christians want to persecute them but that Christians want to marry them.

If you believe that no one was ever corrupted by a book, you have also to believe that no one was ever improved by a book.

You have to know one big thing and stick with it. The leaders who had one very big idea and one very big commitment. This permitted them to create something. Those are the ones who leave a legacy.

No modern nation has ever constructed a foreign policy that was acceptable to its intellectuals

A welfare state, properly conceived, can be an integral part of a conservative society.

A neoconservative is a liberal who's been mugged by reality. A neoliberal is a liberal who's been mugged by reality but has refused to press charges.