You can't understand Twenty-first-Century Politics with an Eighteenth-Century Brain.

To summarize the summary of the summary: people are a problem.

If our Founding Fathers wanted us to care about the rest of the world, they wouldn't have declared their independence from it.

You cannot take away freedom to protect it, you cannot destroy the free market to save it, and you cannot uphold freedom of speech by silencing those with whom you disagree. To take rights away to defend them or to spend your way out of debt defies common sense.

I know that even now, having watched enough television, you probably won't even refer to them as lepers so as to spare their feelings. You probably call them 'parts-dropping-off challenged' or something.

In our age there is no such thing as 'keeping out of politics.' All issues are political issues....