“An e-mail from a reader says that liberals like to take the moral high ground, even though their own moral relativism means that there is no moral high ground.”

“Few of the great tragedies of history were created by the village idiot, and many by the village genius.”

“The simplest and most psychologically satisfying explanation of any observed phenomenon is that it happened that way because someone wanted it to happen that way.”

“Politics is the art of making your selfish desires seem like the national interest.”

“To say that being non-judgmental is better than being judgmental is itself a judgment, and therefore a violation of principle.”

“You can only confiscate the wealth that exists at a given moment. You cannot confiscate future wealth - and that future wealth is less likely to be produced when people see that it is going to be confiscated.”

“The way the [welfare] programs are organized, poor people are only paid to do things that are counter-productive - such as breaking up their families, such as not earning above a certain level of income.”

“Economic policies need to be analyzed in terms of the incentives they create, rather than the hopes that inspired them.”