I believe we ought to subsidize some health care for the poor, but Medicare subsidizes everyone's health care

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

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.

The selection process has been powerful enough to produce one indisputable outcome: the family is a universal human institution. . . . In virtually every society into which historians or anthropologists have inquired, one finds people living together on the basis of kinship ties and having responsibility for raising children. . . . Even in societies where men and women have relatively unrestricted sexual access to one another beginning at an early age, marriage is still the basis for family formation. It is desired by the partners and expected by society.

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

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

There are no more liberals Theyve all been mugged.