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

If your aims as a donor are modest, you can accomplish an awful lot. When your aims become elevated beyond a reasonable level, you not only don't accomplish much, but you can cause a great deal of damage.

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

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.

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

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.

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