Government health care changes the relationship between the citizen and the state, and, in fact, I think it's an assault on citizenship.

Kafka would surely have been impressed by the twin ambitions of the modern empathetic state: the need to set up hyper-regulatory bodies preventing you from doing anything yourself, while simultaneously endowing lavish pseudo-agencies to hand out leaflets listing a 1-800 number you can dial to order more leaflets.

The spirit of the age is: Ask not what your country can do for you, demand it.

The Western front is the important one in this war - the intersection between Islam and a liberal democratic tradition so mired in self-loathing it would rather destroy our civilization just to demonstrate its multicultural bona fides.

The best reason to diminish social programs is not to put more money in people's pockets but to put more responsibility in people's pockets.

Our leadership class's real accomplishment is résumé padding.

The United Auto Workers is AARP in an Edsel: It has three times as many retirees and widows as 'workers' (I use the term loosely). GM has 96,000 employees but provides health benefits to a million people.