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The world is a Hobbesian state of nature in which the struggle for domination is the very essence of international life.

Ideas matter. Legislative proposals matter. Slick campaigns and dazzling speeches can work for a while, but the magic always wears off.

I began my journalistic career on the day Ronald Reagan was sworn in. That's the day I showed up for work at 'The New Republic' magazine.

The conservative idea is not that government has no role. You might have argued that in the thirties when conservatives opposed the New Deal.

If [Bush's] successors don't screw it up, within 10 years NASA will have us back to where we belong
on other worlds.

I envy people who write easily. I enjoy the process, but it's not easeful for me.

Increasing public safety almost always means restricting liberties.

Tuesday's victory was big. But it did nothing more than level the playing field and give you a shot. Take it.

In reality, Kyoto was a huge transfer of resources from the United States to the Third World, under the guise of environmental protection.

So far as I'm concerned, Ronald Reagan was the best president. Nixon was the worst. Some of his policies were okay, but he disgraced the office.

I distrust all multiculturalism, liberal or conservative. The Balkans amply demonstrate the perils of Balkanization.

In modern times we suffer not for our sins - sin having been abolished - but for ideology.

Doves oppose war on the grounds that the risks exceed the gains. War with Iraq could be very costly, possibly degenerating into urban warfare.

The more settled and ordered one's life - and in particular one's communal life - the easier it becomes for one's imagination to fail.

Great leaders are willing to retire unloved and unpopular as the price for great exertion.

The free lunch is the essence of modern liberalism.

Better to be paralyzed from the neck down than the neck up

We must now brace ourselves for disquisitions on peer pressure, adolescent anomie, and rage.

Now this is a way to approach our healthcare problems: increase the number of tax collectors and decrease the number of doctors - brilliant!

Obsession with self is the motif of our time.

Preemption is a kind of pre-deterrence that stops the threat at an earlier, safer stage.

[I]t's not the advertising, it's the dog food. Every time anybody has a look at it or has a lick of it, they don't like it.

I'm a former Red Sox fan, now fully rehabilitated.

Under our constitutional system, the executive executes the laws that Congress has passed. It should not be executing laws that Congress has rejected.

History is not just cruel. It is witty.

There is no comparing the brutality and cynicism of today's pop culture with that of forty years ago: from High Noon to Robocop is a long descent.

Clashes of values and the struggle for primacy constitute a constant in human history that accounts for that other constant - conflict and war.

Identity politics is the mother's milk of the Democratic Left.

The great divide in American foreign policy thinking is between those who believe in paper and those who believe in power.

I don't mind going into a liberal lion's den. That's where you test yourself.

When under attack, no country is obligated to collect permission slips from allies to strike back.

If you subsidize apples, you get more apples; if you subsidize unemployment, you get more of it.

Highfalutin moral principles are impossible guides to foreign policy. At worst, they reflect hypocrisy; at best, extreme naivete.

Post-Watergate morality, by which anything left private is taken as presumptive evidence of wrongdoing.

Obama is a man of first-class intellect and first-class temperament. But his character remains highly suspect.

A three-year diet of rubber chicken and occasional crow.

I think if you're going to master policy, especially world affairs, you've got to know history.

The Brady Bill's only effect will be to desensitize the public to regulation of weapons in preparation for their ultimate confiscation.

There's a reason why in New York Harbor we have the Statue of Liberty, not the Statue of Equality.

The joy of losing consists in this: Where there are no expectations, there is no disappointment.

It is an old liberal theme that conservative ideas, being red in tooth and claw, cannot possibly emerge from any notion of the public good.

The Obama foreign policy, in broad strokes, has been a disaster.

I happen to believe that the preemption school is correct, that the risks of allowing Saddam Hussein to acquire his weapons will only grow with time.

Middleness is the very enemy of the bold.

Fairness through leveling is the essence of Obamaism.

Ron Paul is not going to be president, so we don't have to worry about who's going to be in his cabinet.

Science has everything to say about what is possible. Science has nothing to say about what is permissible.

The Iraquis can see it. The Kurds can feel it. The jihadists are counting on it.

refuses to consider

In the course of his presidency, Obama has gone from an almost magical charismatic figure to an ordinary politician. Ordinary. Average.

I'm The Only Entity On Earth, Other Than Rogue States, That Has Received An Apology From The White House

I would write my editorials using a manual typewriter in pitch-black darkness ... I would produce the whole thing without having seen the text.

Loyalty to the President is great, but loyalty to truth, integrity, and country is even better.

If fences don't work, why is there one around the White House?

A one-hour work-week ... would minimize the damage that Congress can do.

Where religion is trivialized, one is unlikely to find persecution.

When you have the worst disaster in American history, you've got to be attuned to expectations,.

Washington is the only place in the world where a gaffe is when a politician accidently speaks the truth.

Why in the age of feminism do we still use the phrase "women and children"?

I would say I see myself as a psychiatrist in remission.

Every week 10,000 tons of food, medicine, and other humanitarian supplies are sent by Israel to Gaza.

I don't really care what a public figure thinks. I care about what he does. Let God probe his inner heart.