We don't need any troops abroad-they don't help our defense.

Given the inefficiencies of what DC laughingly calls the 'criminal justice system,' I think we can safely assume that 95 percent of the black males in that city are semi-criminal or entirely criminal.

Believe me, the intellectual revolution is going on, and that has to come first before you see the political changes. That's where I'm very optimistic.

Demanding domestic security in times of war invites carelessness in preserving civil liberties and the right of privacy. Frequently the people are only too anxious for their freedoms to be sacrificed on the altar of authoritarianism thought to be necessary to remain safe and secure.

Ideas are the only things that count, and politicians are, for the most part, pretty much irrelevant.

A failing state cannot stop a revolution whose time has come.

Once created, federal programs are nearly impossible to eliminate.