"Clinton and Obama practice this politics known quaintly as the Richard Speck strategy: if you cannot take on everyone in the room at once, take them out of the room one at a time."

"Look, the center right coalition in American politics today is best understood as a coalition of groups and individuals that on the issue that brings them to politics what they want from the government is to be left alone."

"My goal is to cut government in half in twenty-five years, to get it down to the size where we can drown it in the bathtub."

"Our goal is to shrink government to the size where we can drown it in a bathtub."

"Some of those drawn into the holy war had been secular nationalists only a few years before. If one looks at the biographies of these people, remarkable continuities are revealed."

"I won't undertake war until I have tried all the arts and means of peace."

"I have absolutely zero interest in politics."

"Idealism is the despot of thought, just as politics is the despot of will."