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

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.

There is nothing like a parade to elicit the proper respect for the military from the populace.

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.

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.

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

One can be unhappy before eating caviar, even after, but at least not during.