Being frustrated is disagreeable, but the real disasters of life begin when you get what you want.

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.

A liberal is a person who sees a fourteen-year-old girl performing sex acts onstage and wonders if she's being paid minimum wage.

The enemy of liberal capitalism today is not so much socialism as nihilism.

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.

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

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