The Latin motto over Poindexter's new Pentagon office reads Scientia Est Potentia - "knowledge is power." Exactly: the government's infinite knowledge about you is its power over you.

Nobody stands taller than those willing to stand corrected.

I'm a right-wing pundit and have been for many years.

Never feel guilty about reading, it's what you do to do your job.

As long as one American is hungry... then we have unfinished business in this country.

I think we have a need to know what we do not need to know.

If America cannot win a war in a week, it begins negotiating with itself.