A government without the power of defense! It is a solecism.

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

Arresting a single drunk or a single vagrant who has harmed no identifiable person seems unjust, and in a sense it is. But failing to do anything about a score of drunks or a hundred vagrants may destroy an entire community.

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

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

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.