Politics and war are remarkably similar situations.

What more do I need to say? Conservative books sell. I can't help it if liberal books don't sell.

In the middle of a recession no tax increase is justified because it kills jobs, and any tax increase is a job-killing measure and should be defeated.

As a historian I understand how histories are written. My enemies will write histories that dismiss me and prove I was unimportant. My friends will write histories that glorify me and prove I was more important than I was. And two generations or three from now, some serious sober historian will write a history that sort of implies I was whoever I was.

To the degree I was too brash, Too self-confident or too pushy, I apologize.

Oh, sure... I was trying to make to make a point that we shouldn't be afraid to debate the left, even on the environment. That was obviously misconstrued, and that's one of the things I probably won't do again

Donald Trump is the one who said if somebody really wants an arms race, we'll drown him.