Maybe it's true that people with less extreme views who are also interested in public affairs have been driven out by a marketplace that doesn't offer them anything of the tone they want to listen to.

What I say is I am somebody who cares about conservative ideas. I want to see them implemented in governance.

A novel makes it possible to understand not just events, but the people who control the events; not only their choices, but also their motives.

I realized that public affairs were also my affairs.

There are a lot of wonderful people in America who shouldn't be on the Supreme Court - and a lot who should be on the court who aren't such wonderful people.

left behind a country that was more dynamic, more competitive, more tolerant, less deferential, less self-confident, less united, more socially equal, less economically equal, more expressive, more risk-averse, more sexual, less literate, less polite, less reticent.