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

If you believe that no one was ever corrupted by a book, you have also to believe that no one was ever improved by a book.

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

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.

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.