I think as - all in all, it's better to have a cool president than a not cool president.

There is no - let me repeat - no example in the last quarter-century of a large, complex economy that has been successful with high taxes.

[In] the post-Enlightenment world, science [has] taken the place of magic, miracles, and superstition.

The premise of my book is that everyone is a bit ideological to some extent. Everyone comes from a ideological perspective.

The government cannot love you, and any politics that works on a different assumption is destined for no good.

Seriously, in 2008 we elected a community organizer, state senator, college instructor first term senator over a guy who spent five years in a Vietnamese prison. And now he's lecturing us about how America's gone "soft"? Really?

We are a species that must try to impose and find systems - systems of thought, ways of organizing and categorizing reality.