Leadership is, among other things, the ability to inflict pain and get away with it - short-term pain for long-term gain.
The future has a way of arriving unannounced.
Conservatives define themselves in terms of what they oppose.
Voters don't decide issues, they decide who will decide issues.
There may be more poetry than justice in poetic justice.
Politics should share one purpose with religion: the steady emancipation of the individual through the education of his passions.
The 1935 Social Security Act established 65 as the age of eligibility for payouts. But welfare state politics quickly becomes a bidding war, enriching the menu of benefits, so in 1956 Congress entitle...
World War II was the last government program that really worked.
Baseball it is said is only a game. True. And the Grand Canyon is only a hole in Arizona. Not all holes or games are created equal.
I suppose there's a melancholy tone at the back of the American mind, a sense of something lost. And it's the lost world of Thomas Jefferson. It is the lost sense of innocence that we could live with...
Well, you know, the definition of second marriage is the triumph of hope over experience.
We are given children to test us and make us more spiritual.
If you seek Hamilton's monument, look around. You are living in it. We honor Jefferson, but live in Hamilton's country, a mighty industrial nation with a strong central government.
Barack Obama hopes his famous health care victory will mark him as a transformative president. History, however, may judge it to have been his missed opportunity to be one.
...it is impossible to reason people out of affiliations they have not been reasoned into.
Government has the role of suiting people for freedom. People aren't made for freedom spontaneously. There's sort of a 19-year race between when people are born and when they become adults. And govern...
I just got hooked on the radio, the voice of it all. It was my connection to metropolitan America, if you will. Sports, in particularly baseball then 'cause of its rich sediment of numbers, was one of...
A society that thinks the choice between ways of living is just a choice between equally eligible 'lifestyles' turns universities into academic cafeterias offering junk food for the mind.
Modern parents want to nurture so skillfully that Mother Nature will gasp in admiration at the marvels their parenting produces from the soft clay of children.
Freedom means the freedom to behave coarsely, basely, foolishly.