...discussing cultural relativism with cultural relativists is like playing tennis with some guy who says, "Your ace is just a social construct.

There is no conceivable amount of money worth telling the world that you were beaten up by Liza Minnelli.

Long before they slump into poverty, great powers succumb to a poverty of ambition.

How ridiculous! You're going to have the first black president apologize for slavery?

[To] the progressive mind, the very concept of "the enemy" is obsolescent: there are no enemies, just friends whose grievances we haven't yet accommodated.

How do you 'invest in the future'? By borrowing $188 million every hour. That's what the Government of the United States is doing. It's spending one-fifth of a billion dollars it doesn't have every hour of every day of every week - all for your future!

The law functions as formal embodiment of a moral code, not as free-standing substitute for it.