Yuppies don't have loyalty. They have useful relationships and meaningful encounters.

Since Ronald Reagan's election in 1980, conservatives of various sorts, and conservatisms of various stripes, have generally been in the ascendancy. And a good thing, too! Conservatives have been right more often than not - and more often than liberals - about most of the important issues of the day.

Whenever I hear anything described as a heartless assault on our children, I tend to think it’s a good idea.

There are a few things [Donald Trump] has been pretty clear he'll do. A big infrastructure program that he'll get bipartisan support for.

That's always been the case in America; there's been a big spectrum in how much people are interested in American politics.

I think reading intelligent expressions of different points of view is a good thing, and there is a way in which being in academia in a classroom at the University probably gives you, can give you an academic view of things, and reading actual real time debates about what should we do in Syria or the Buffett rule, budget issues...gives you a kind of sense that's hard to get in a classroom.

Having defeated and then occupied Iraq, democratizing the country should not be too tall an order for the world's sole superpower.