Political utopias are a form of nostalgia for an imagined past projected onto the future as a wish.

There's a financial cost, but the only costs that are ever real are the costs of our soldiers.

There are all kinds of different forms of public service, but there's no form of public service that can make more difference for more people than partisan political activity.

Those with a gift for action, for their part, often express contempt for those whose gifts are more reflective. Men of action like to say, Those who can, do, those who cant, teach, forgetting that those who teach get to write the history books.

Patriotism is the secret resource of a successful society.

How do you keep war accountable to the American people when war becomes invisible and virtual?

Scar Tissue is the only book Ive ever written when Ive felt completely toxic, ill.