“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.”

“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.”

“Balanced budget requirements seem more likely to produce accounting ingenuity than genuinely balanced budgets.”

“Time is the old justice that examines all such offenders, and let Time try.”

“Now let it work. Mischief, thou art afoot. Take thou what course thou wilt.”

“Fire that's closest kept burns most of all.”