“Twelve-year-olds are eager to turn everything into arguments but don't have the cognitive skills to win them.”

“A 65 year old woman questioning herself is no different than a 15 year old girl launching herself.”

“It is a lesson of the sixties: liberals get in the biggest political trouble - whether instituting open housing, civilian compliant review boards, or sex education programs - when they presume that a reform is an inevitable comcomitant of progress. It is then they are most likely to establish their reforms by top-down bureaucratic means. A blindsiding backlash often ensues.”

“Polls could be self-fulfilling prophecies, shaping reality as much as they described it.”

“In politics, if you're explaining, you're loosing.”

“Richard Nixon was a serial collector of resentments.”

“Being hated by the right people was no impediment to success. The unpolished were everywhere the majority.”