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Trump is a systemic stress test.
Never leave a crossword unfinished.
History is not just cruel. It is witty.
Middleness is the very enemy of the bold.
Obsession with self is the motif of our time.
I'm a former Red Sox fan, now fully rehabilitated.
The free lunch is the essence of modern liberalism.
Fairness through leveling is the essence of Obamaism.
I would say I see myself as a psychiatrist in remission.
A three-year diet of rubber chicken and occasional crow.
Better to be paralyzed from the neck down than the neck up
If fences don't work, why is there one around the White House.
Identity politics is the mother's milk of the Democratic Left.
The Obama foreign policy, in broad strokes, has been a disaster.
Where religion is trivialized, one is unlikely to find persecution.
Increasing public safety almost always means restricting liberties.
A one-hour work-week...would minimize the damage that Congress can do.
I don't mind going into a liberal lion's den. That's where you test yourself.
The Iraquis can see it. The Kurds can feel it. The jihadists are counting on it.
I envy people who write easily. I enjoy the process, but it's not easeful for me.
Preemption is a kind of pre-deterrence that stops the threat at an earlier, safer stage.
Every once in a while, the Senate seems to remember that it belongs to a coequal branch.
Great leaders are willing to retire unloved and unpopular as the price for great exertion.
I don't think the West needs to apologize - or pay - for having invented the steam engine.
We must now brace ourselves for disquisitions on peer pressure, adolescent anomie, and rage.
I think if you're going to master policy, especially world affairs, you've got to know history.
Loyalty to the President is great, but loyalty to truth, integrity, and country is even better.
If you subsidize apples, you get more apples; if you subsidize unemployment, you get more of it.
The joy of losing consists in this: Where there are no expectations, there is no disappointment.
When you have the worst disaster in American history, you've got to be attuned to expectations,.
There's a reason why in New York Harbor we have the Statue of Liberty, not the Statue of Equality.
When under attack, no country is obligated to collect permission slips from allies to strike back.
Post-Watergate morality, by which anything left private is taken as presumptive evidence of wrongdoing.
Ron Paul is not going to be president, so we don't have to worry about who's going to be in his cabinet.
Washington is the only place in the world where a gaffe is when a politician accidently speaks the truth.
I don't really care what a public figure thinks. I care about what he does. Let God probe his inner heart.
Science has everything to say about what is possible. Science has nothing to say about what is permissible.
You're betraying your whole life if you don't say what you think - and you don't say it honestly and bluntly.
Tuesday's victory was big. But it did nothing more than level the playing field and give you a shot. Take it.
Obama is a man of first-class intellect and first-class temperament. But his character remains highly suspect.
The normalization of Trump is one indicator that there may be less to the populist insurrection than imagined.
In the end, what brings civilizations down is when the elites lose confidence in the rightness of their cause.
There was once a philosopher who said, 'I don't believe in God, but I fear him greatly.' That's about where I am.
Trump's relentless public humiliation of Attorney General Jeff Sessions was clearly intended to get him to resign.
Sometimes it's easy to go where the wind blows, but those that stand firmly planted are forces to be reckoned with.
I distrust all multiculturalism, liberal or conservative. The Balkans amply demonstrate the perils of Balkanization.
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 believe that the pursuit of truth and right ideas through honest debate and rigorous argument is a noble undertaking.
The world is a Hobbesian state of nature in which the struggle for domination is the very essence of international life.
As most who have engaged in competitive sports know, there's nothing to match the amplitude of emotion brought by losing.