The really difficult moral issues arise, not from a confrontation of good and evil, but from a collision between two goods

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.

Neocons do not feel that kind of alarm or anxiety about the growth of the state in the past century, seeing it as natural, indeed inevitable ... People have always preferred strong government to weak government, although they certainly have no liking for anything that smacks of overly intrusive government.

Democracy does not guarantee equality of conditions - it only guarantees equality of opportunity.

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

I have observed over the years that the unanticipated consequences of social action are always more important, and usually less agreeable, than the intended consequences.

Even if we can't be happy, we must always be cheerful.