An intellectual may be defined as a man who speaks with general authority about a subject on which he has no particular competence.

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

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

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

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

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.

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.