Moderation is a virtue only in those who are thought to have an alternative.

The essence of Richard Nixon is loneliness.

Even a paranoid can have enemies.

No one will ever win the battle of the sexes; there's too much fraternizing with the enemy.

A leader who confines his role to his people's experience dooms himself to stagnation; a leader who outstrips his people's experience runs the risk of not being understood.

The nice thing about being a celebrity is that, if you bore people, they think it's their fault.

I think we would find, if you study the conduct of guerilla-type wars, that the Obama Administration has hit more targets on a broader scale than the Nixon Administration ever did.

A leader does not deserve the name unless he is willing occasionally to stand alone.

I have been a professor, and I have been a policymaker, and as a professor, you think in terms of truth or absolutes.

The Trump phenomenon is in large part a reaction of Middle America to attacks on its values by intellectual and academic communities. There are other reasons, but this is a significant one.