There was no intellectual movement in American history called social Darwinism. The people who were supposedly the leaders of the social Darwinist movement never embraced something called social Darwinism. It didn't exist.

Americans are very smart about the things they care about, and ignorant about the things they don't.

Not reassuring when weathermen say 'Today will be terrible but don't worry it won't be as terrible as tomorrow or Friday.

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

Are you a producer or a looter? If diversity were always and everywhere good we would be clamoring for more midgets in the NBA.

Free trade has been proven, time and again, as a reliable path to economic development. It pushes the public and private sectors alike toward greater accountability and transparency. It lifts people out of poverty, and while it can force unsettling changes on a society, those changes prove to be worthwhile in a very short time.

[There] is something fundamentally unpatriotic in the yearning to fundamentally transform your country.