Life, As The Signs In The Liquor

We, As Conservative Intellectuals, Should Not Be In The Business Of Making Excuses For Bad Parliamentary Decisions By Republican Leaders In Congress.

I Think The Single Most Important Question Is How Do You Maximize The Number Of Children Who Grow Up In Stable Two-parent Households. We Know In All Kinds Of Ways It Makes A Huge Difference To How Kids Come Out And We Are Hardening Into A Caste Society Where Some Kids Do Better In All Kinds Of Ways Because They Have Two Parents And Others Don't.

Democracy Takes Work. That's The Thing We're Really Finding Out, That, You Know, In Many Ways, You Know, The Past Two Decades We've Taken For Granted All Of The Extraordinary Achievements Of The Post-war Generation. You Know, Building This Global Alliance Structure That Has Kept The Peace Across The North Atlantic Since World War Ii. Building All Of These Institutions, Building All This Remarkable Technology. And People Have Privatized. You Know, You Can Now, You Don't Have To Go Outdoors Much, The Whole World Comes To You.

The Great Society Went Wrong For Three Major Reasons. First, The Self-organization The Johnson Administration Promoted Turned Out To Be Not The Pooling Of Family And Community Resources Into Shops And Businesses, But Political Pressure For Government Handouts. Second, The Great Society Failed To Anticipate The Perverse Side-effects Of Handing Money Out To People Who Have Done Nothing To Earn It. Third, While The Great Society Was Showering Money On The Poor, The Supreme Court Was With Childlike Glee Smashing To Bits Traditional Methods Of Maintaining Law And Order.

I Want People To Understand That, Look, We're In A Period Of Democratic Deficit, Democratic Recession. There Are Fewer Democracies In The World Today Than In 2005, And In Many Of The Countries That Are Still Technically Democracies, We're Seeing A Reduction In The Rule Of Law. And That's Especially True In Central Europe, But It's Also True Of Places Like South Africa, The Philippines.