And what a prize we have to fight for: no less than the chance to banish from our land the dark divisive clouds of Marxist socialism.

If you set out to be liked, you will accomplish nothing.

Choice is the essence of ethics: if there were no choice there would be no ethics, no good, no evil; good and evil have meaning only insofar as man is free to choose.

Hope is no basis for a defense policy.

Rogue states never turn out to be quite the pariahs they are deemed. They are only able to cause, or at least threaten to cause, mayhem because they enjoy the covert support - usually by means of technology transfers - of one or more major powers within the charmed circle of global 'good guys'.

Socialists are happy until they run out of other people's money.

... when a big man has a big idea I never like to stand in his way.