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

[Among conservatives] there's been too much pseudo-populism, almost too much concern and attention for, quote, 'the people'.... After all, we conservatives are on the side of the lords and barons.... We...are pulling up the drawbridge against the peasants.

The liberal media were never that powerful, and the whole thing was often used as an excuse by conservatives for conservative failures.

These soldiers deserve a better defense secretary than the one we have.

I'm happy to have interns at The Weekly Standard and happy to have readers of The Weekly Standard, but if you all tell me that you were busy reading Plato and [Lev] Tolstoy and playing violin in the orchestra, I'd say that was great. I wouldn't tell you to take time out from that to get involved in political journalism.

First of all, legally, it's hard to do these things[ get rid of ObamaCare]. Donald Trump needs a lot of competent people.

[Donald ] Trump is more important than all of us. He's more important than the media.