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.

There is no way the American public will sit still for the banning of or putting any significant restrictions on the kinds of guns they want.

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

Police ought to protect communities as well as individuals.... Just as physicians now recognize the importance of fostering health rather than simply treating illness, so the police - and the rest of us - ought to recognize the importance of maintaining, intact, communities without broken windows.

I believe that the high rates of property crime (and some of the increase in violent crime) are part of the price you pay for freedom.

If a radical devolution of powers was possible, it would have been done before. The assumption of states' rights is gone. There's no support for it in the Supreme Court and there's no support for it in public opinion.

There aren't any liberals left in New York. They've all been mugged by now.