“Idealism is fine, but as it approaches reality, the costs become prohibitive.”

“Our political economy and our high-energy industry run on large, general principles, on ideas — not by day-to-day guess work, expedients and improvisations. Ideas have to go into exchange to become or remain operative; and the medium of such exchange is the printed word.”

“Liberals claim to want to give a hearing to other views, but then are shocked and offended to discover that there are other views.”

“The amount of money and of legal energy being given to prosecute hundreds of thousands of Americans who are caught with a few ounces of marijuana in their jeans simply makes no sense - the kindest way to put it. A sterner way to put it is that it is an outrage, an imposition on basic civil liberties and on the reasonable expenditure of social energy.”

“Decent people should ignore politics, if only they could be confident that politics would ignore them”

“I find it easier to believe in God than to believe Hamlet was deduced from the molecular structure of a mutton chop.”

“There will be no legacy for Mr. Bush. I don't believe hissuccessor would re-enunciate the words he used in hissecond inaugural address because they were too ambitious.So therefore I think his legacy is indecipherable.”