Liberals seem to assume that, if you don’t believe in their particular political solutions, then you don’t really care about the people that they claim to want to help.

The fact that so many successful politicians are such shameless liars is not only a reflection on them, it is also a reflection on us. When the people want the impossible, only liars can satisfy.

Put bluntly, failure attracts more money than success. Politically, failure becomes a reason to demand more money...

It is hard to imagine a more stupid or more dangerous way of making decisions than by putting those decisions in the hands of people who pay no price for being wrong.

Clearly, only very unequal intellectual and moral standing could justify having equality imposed, whether the people want it or not, as Dworkin suggests, and only very unequal power would make it possible.

As history has also shown, especially in the twentieth century, one of the first things an ideologue will do after achieving absolute power is kill.

It doesn't matter how smart you are unless you stop and think.

It is scary how easily so many people can be brainwashed by sheer repetition of a word.

The reason so many people misunderstand so many issues is not that these issues are so complex, but that people do not want a factual or analytical explanation that leaves them emotionally unsatisfied.They want villains to hate and heroes to cheer - and they don't want explanations that fail to give them that.