Reagan is both too fatalistic and too modest to be a crudaser. He doesn't have that darkness around the eyes of a George McGovern.

It had all the earmarks of a CIA operation; the bomb killed everybody in the room except the intended target!

When it is not possible to reason with holy warriors, it is necessary to immobilize them or crush them.

Conservatism is the tacit acknowledgement that all that is finally important in human experience is behind us; that the crucial explorations have been undertaken, and that it is given to man to know what are the great truths that emerged from them.

Louis Kelso of San Francisco, a lawyer-economist, has for years felt that he has a radical answer to the problem.

You cannot paint the Mona Lisa by assigning one dab each to a thousand painters.

Truth is a demure lady, much too ladylike to knock you on your head and drag you to her cave. She is there, but people must want her, and seek her out.