Having worked for him in the nuclear weapons policy business, I can tell you that President Reagan was committed to assuring the effectiveness of our nuclear deterrent.

The more we are consuming oil that either comes from places that are bent on our destruction or helping those who are... the more we are enabling those who are trying to kill us.

One of the most important post-9/11 efforts made to counter terrorism and the spread of weapons of mass destruction is President Bush's Proliferation Security Initiative (PSI).

The object of China's strategy is inexorably to supplant the United States as the world's premier economic power, and if necessary, to defeat us militarily.

Sharia is the impetus behind multinational diplomatic efforts to accommodate Sharia blasphemy prohibitions on expression that offends Muslims.

I don't believe there is such a thing as a moderate Islamist party. The challenge with Islamists is that they seek to impose what they call Sharia on everybody, Muslim and non-Muslim alike.

Barack Obama has exhibited sympathy, if not for the terrorists, then certainly for the Islamic supremacists.

Boone Pickens should be commended for his leadership on American energy security, and for bringing Ted Turner along on some sensible approaches to enhancing it.

The most desirable aspects of the Law of the Sea Treaty pertain to navigational rights.

To be sure, President Clinton reached an accord called "The Agreement" in 1994 that purports to address some of President Reagan's concerns.

It is one of the truisms of politics that a conservative is often enough a former liberal who has been 'mugged by reality.'

Trust was accumulated quickly, due primarily to the brute strength of the man's gentleness, his thereness. (p.36)

[Our lab uses] a desktop inkjet printer, but instead of using ink, we're using cells.

In teaching there should be no distinction of classes.

You fail in your thoughts, or you prevail in your thoughts only.

People think that mathematics is complicated. Mathematics is the simple bit, it’s the stuff we CAN understand. It’s cats that are complicated.

My greatest fortune was that I was ordered to take up art for the good of my health

We live in the age of mass loquacity.We are all writing it or at any rate talking it: the memoir, the apologia, the c.v., the cri de coeur.

I recently went to New York for the first time, and honey, I'm in love with that place. I'm obsessed with its sausages.

There were only so many kicks a dog could take before it turned vicious.’ (Acheron)

I try to be as ruthless as possible. I ask myself of each sentence, "Is it clear? Is it true? Does it feel good?" And if it's not, then I rewrite it.