“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.”

“No part of the education of a politician is more indispensable than the fighting of elections.”

“Elections exist for the sake of the House of Commons and not the House of Commons for the sake of elections.”

“Politics has become so expensive that it takes a lot of money even to be defeated.”