The great achievement of Western culture since the Enlightenment is to make many of us peer over the wall and grant some respect to people outside it; the great failure of Western Culture is to deny that walls are inevitable or important.

What most needs explanation is not why some people are criminals, but why most people are not.

Public order is a fragile thing, and if you don't fix the first broken window, soon all the windows will be broken.

One unrepaired broken window is a signal that no one cares, and so breaking more windows costs nothing.

I will have an administrative system where there is no way to extricate red tape.

But no one has yet succeeded in reducing the size or scope of the federal government

Some people suggest that the problem is the separation of powers. If you had a parliamentary system, the struggle for power would not result in such complex peace treaties that empower so many different people to pursue so many contradictory aims