Those who can do. Those who can't form a supercommittee.

When Cromwell instructed his portraitist to paint him 'warts and all', he meant both halves of that equation. To teach the warts alone is morbid and unhealthy.

Our leadership class's real accomplishment is résumé padding.

Like most people, I have no wish to live in a community organized by community organizers.

What happened to those men and women at Fort Hood had a horrible symbolism: Members of the best trained, best equipped fighting force on the planet gunned down by a guy who said a few goofy things no one took seriously. And that's the problem: America has the best troops and fiercest firepower, but no strategy for throttling the ideology that drives the enemy — in Afghanistan and in Texas.

Question: How much do you have to invest in the future before you've spent it and no longer have one?

But, once you get a taste for shutting people up, it's hard to stop. Why bother winning the debate when it's easier to close it down?