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

A liberal is a person who sees a fourteen-year-old girl performing sex acts onstage and wonders if she's being paid minimum wage.

Somehow, the fact that more poor people are on welfare, receiving more generous payments, does not seem to have made this country a nice place to live - not even for the poor on welfare, whose condition seems not noticeably better than when they were poor and off welfare. Something appears to have gone wrong; a liberal and compassionate social policy has bred all sorts of unanticipated and perverse consequences.

The enemy of liberal capitalism today is not so much socialism as nihilism.

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

...only liberal organizations are clearly designated [in the press] as "nonpatisan, nonprofit." Non-liberal research organizations are always identified as "right-wing" or "conservative."

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