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.

It was a new kind of class war - the people as citizens versus the politicians and their clients in the public sector.

The trouble with traditional American conservatism is that it lacks a naturally cheerful, optimistic disposition. Not only does it lack one, it regards signs of one as evidence of unsoundness, irresponsibility.

The problem is efforts by liberals to establish a wall between religion and society, in the guise of maintaining the wall between church and state.

As a result of the efforts of Hayek .. and the many others who share his general outlook, the idea of a centrally planned and centrally administered economy, so popular in the 1930s and early 1940s, has been discredited.

What rules the world is idea, because ideas define the way reality is perceived.

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