To be Irish is to know that in the end the world will break your heart.
Everyone is entitled to his own opinion, but not to his own facts.
There is one unmistakable lesson in American history: A community that allows a large number of young men to grow up in broken families, dominated by women, never acquiring any stable relationship to male authority, never acquiring any set of rational expectations about the future.
The single most exciting thing you encounter in government is competence, because it’s so rare.
If the newspapers of a country are filled with good news, the jails of that country will be filled with good people.
Somehow liberals have been unable to acquire from life what conservatives seem to be endowed with at birth: namely, a healthy skepticism of the powers of government agencies to do good.
I’m a Democrat, and there are an important group of things only the government can do. But let us be clear that for most of the world, what they most need is less government.