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

If you think shrinking government and getting it less involved in your life is a hallmark of tyranny it is only because you are either grotesquely ignorant or because you subscribe to a statist ideology that believes the expansion of the state is the expansion of liberty.

Getting the support of Syria is the moral equivalent of winning the Klan's endorsement - it might be useful but it doesn't necessarily speak well of you.

Capitalism is the greatest system ever created for alleviating general human misery, and yet it breeds ingratitude.

Despite what you may have been taught about Indians or Africans or ancient Celts, poor people are terrible stewards of their environment. For instance, if my kid were starving to death, I would happily feed her fresh panda.

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.