Politics is an art and not a science, and what is required for its mastery is not the rationality of the engineer but the wisdom and the moral strength of the statesman

Statesmanship is developed in the hard knocks of general experience, private and public.

There is usually a moment in the life of a new president when he begins to see himself not as an aspirant desperate to win but as a statesman above the squalor and sweat of...

Americans talked about voters the same way Russians talked about Stalin. They had to be obeyed.

The challenge was that it was harder to be subtle than strident.

I am a Conservative to preserve all that is good in our constitution, a Radical to remove all that is bad. I seek to preserve property and to respect order, and I equally decry the...

Since the debt limit simply accommodates debt that has already been incurred, raising it should, in theory, be perfunctory. But politicians have found it a useful shibboleth for showing their fealty fiscal discipline, even as...

The President is also captured in a well-worn TV news clip, making a boilerplate response to a question on terrorism and then asking the reporters to watch his drive. Well, that’s what you get if...

The eternal sea of politics is best left to politicians.

On Lincoln: “A profound common sense is the best genius for statesmanship.

The kind of president we need has little to do with ideology and more to do with a willingness to wield power to moral ends.

The reality is that the American people have no desire for an empire. This is not to say that they don’t want the benefits, both economic and strategic. It simply means that they don’t want...

Idealism is frequently another word for self-righteousness, a disease that can only be corrected by a profound understanding power in its complete sense.