To have selected her, when conservative jurisprudence has at least a dozen others on a bench deeper than that of the New York Yankees, is scandalous.

The conservative idea is not that government has no role. You might have argued that in the thirties when conservatives opposed the New Deal.

When you have the worst disaster in American history, you've got to be attuned to expectations,

It is an old liberal theme that conservative ideas, being red in tooth and claw, cannot possibly emerge from any notion of the public good.

When under attack, no country is obligated to collect permission slips from allies to strike back

When in 1966 Charles de Gaulle ordered France out of NATO and American troops off French soil, Secretary of State Dean Rusk asked him if that included the American soldiers lying dead in the cemeteries at Normandy and throughout France