One of the things that really drove me crazy was the way in which college kids, in particular, are educated to think that ideology is dangerous and bad.

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

We are all descended from cavemen who broke the skulls of their enemies with rocks for fun or profit. But that hardly mitigates the crimes of a man who does the same thing today. I see no problem judging the behavior of the Islamic State and its apologists from the vantage point of the West's high horse, because we've earned the right to sit in that saddle.

[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.

John Kerry is a sphincter. Okay, that's a bit juvenile.

Three explanations dominate speculation about what Obama is up to. The first is that he's trying to lay the groundwork for his successor, presumptive nominee Hillary Clinton. The second is that he's trying to pad his legacy. The third is that he's trying to 'troll' or bait the GOP into debating his agenda rather than pursuing its own. All are plausible, and none necessarily contradicts the others.

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.