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.

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

The liberal paradigm of regulation and license has led to a society where an 18-year-old girl has the right to public fornication in a pornographic movie - but only if she is paid the minimum wage.

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.

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.

I regard myself to have been a young Trostkyite and I have not a single bitter memory.