[American] liberalism today sees no realm of human life that is beyond political significance, from what you eat to what you smoke to what you say.

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.

Those who say [Joseph] Padilla should get a civilian trial are essentially saying that if you reject the rules of civilized nations, like those inscribed in the Geneva Convention, you therefore deserve to be treated better, not worse, than those rules require.

Public unions are the country's foremost advocates for increased taxes at all levels of government.

Historians write favorably, you know, for example, about Stalin because he was doing big things.

If you write for the critics, only the critics will read you.

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