“If you want government to intervene domestically you’re a liberal. If you want government to intervene overseas you’re a conservative. If you want government to intervene everywhere you’re a moderate. If you don’t want government to intervene anywhere you’re an extremist.”
Joseph Sobran

“When the paradigms of the past don’t work for the present all we have to go on is imagination and intellectual honesty. Given that [one] side values these qualities, and the other side does not, we’ll have to hope that they’ll be enough.”
Judith Shulevitz

“Intellectuals may like to think of themselves as people who "speak truth to power" but too often they are people who speak lies to gain power.”
Thomas Sowell