Think tanks do have points of view, and they are absolutely entitled to defend them.
There is no right to work in a think tank, and these are very privileged positions.
Events don’t happen because I write a speech. I am allowed to write a speech because events are going to happen.
The great power the president has is that he is the most prominent person in the biggest media event on the planet. He has the attention of the nation and the world. When he speaks, everybody listens.
My mother cared more about how you reasoned than about the conclusions you reached.
To balance China, the democracies will need new friends – and India with its fast-growing economy, youthful population, and democratic politics seems the obvious candidate.
We, as conservative intellectuals, should not be in the business of making excuses for bad parliamentary decisions by Republican leaders in Congress.
The five million people who watch cable news are the political nation, the people who really care.
One can shape history as much through the facts one omits as through the facts one includes.
If we say something often enough, we come to believe it. We don’t usually delude others until after we have first deluded ourselves.
My mom was truly an iconic figure, a great journalist and a pioneering woman who died at 54 of cancer without ever having revealed to viewers that she was ill.
As thrilling as it was, speechwriting is ultimately frustrating for someone who wants to be a writer.
A novel makes it possible to understand not just events, but the people who control the events; not only their choices, but also their motives.
America under 30 is a more non-whites place than America over 60. And we know that non-whites and whites vote differently.
A presidential speech is always the work of many hands.
Those who seem to despise half of America will never be trusted to govern any of it. Those who cherish only the country’s past will not be entrusted with its future.
Republicans have to move to a point of greater unity.
People who watch a lot of Fox come away knowing a lot less about important world events.
Life, as the signs in the liquor stores say, is too short to drink bad wine. And summer is too short to read bad books.
What I say is I am somebody who cares about conservative ideas. I want to see them implemented in governance.