He's nice enough not to want to be associated with a nasty remark but not nice enough not to make it. Lacking the courage of one's nastiness does not make one nice.

The solution when you don't like someone's speech is not to silence that person, or that corporation. It's more and louder speech of your own.

One answer is that the towns elected officials thought that the project served a public purpose and that the various subsidies and favors were worth the price. But they may or may not have thought this.

If hypocrisy is the tribute vice pays to virtue, piousness is virtue paying tribute to itself.

What could be more absurd than the idea that genuine anti-Christian prejudice is a major force in American politics.

Journalistic conventions make it hard for reporters to deal with a big, complicated lie.

In those days, the late 1970s, one of the leading politicians was a soon-to-be uncle by marriage of Arnold Schwarzenegger, named Ted Kennedy.