The United States military is now evolving geometrically as it gains experience from near-constant fighting and grafts new technology daily. Indeed, it seems to be doubling, tripling, and even quadrupling its lethality every few years. And the result is that we are outdistancing not merely the capabilities of our enemies but our allies as well - many of whom who have not fought in decades - at such a dizzying pace that our sheer destructive power makes it hard to work with others in joint operations.

In the case of [Donald] Trump, he was able to tell people that elites live in gated communities, where they have walls around their home.

Popular culture is simply a reflection of what the majority seems to want.

I saw more stupid people in graduate school and three decades in academia than I ever did who ran 100 acres without going broke.

States are like people. They do not question the awful status quo until some dramatic event overturns the conventional and lax way of thinking.

I think people are beating each other up in the halls of Congress, as they did in the late 1850s.

California is now a valuable touchstone to the country, a warning of what not to do. Rarely has a single generation inherited so much natural wealth and bounty from the investment and hard work of those more noble now resting in our cemeteries-and squandered that gift within a generation.