There is no way the American public will sit still for the banning of or putting any significant restrictions on the kinds of guns they want..

But no one has yet succeeded in reducing the size or scope of the federal government.

Window-breaking does not necessarily occur on a large scale because some areas are inhabited by determined window-breakers whereas others are populat….

Many, if not most, of the difficulties we experience in dealing with government agencies arise from the agencies being part of a fragmented and open ….

It's no surprise that academics in this country have been generally suspicious of business or that in a time like this, when general public confidenc….

If a radical devolution of powers was possible, it would have been done before. The assumption of states' rights is gone. There's no support for it i….

Police ought to protect communities as well as individuals.... Just as physicians now recognize the importance of fostering health rather than simply….

We live in a world shaped by the ambiguous legacy of the Enlightenment...[it] enlarged the scope of human freedom, prepared our minds for the scienti….

The selection process has been powerful enough to produce one indisputable outcome: the family is a universal human institution. . . . In virtually e….

The most remarkable change in the moral history of mankind has been the rise - and occasionally the application - of the view that all people, and no….

One unrepaired broken window is a signal that no one cares, and so breaking more windows costs nothing..

Public order is a fragile thing, and if you don't fix the first broken window, soon all the windows will be broken..

There are no more liberals Theyve all been mugged..

Character is not the enemy of self-expression and personal freedom, it is their necessary precondition..

There aren't any liberals left in New York. They've all been mugged by now..

I believe that the high rates of property crime (and some of the increase in violent crime) are part of the price you pay for freedom..

I will have an administrative system where there is no way to extricate red tape..

I mean that the function of the police is to solve problems that have law-enforcement consequences in a way that is based on a genuine partnership wi….

Arresting a single drunk or a single vagrant who has harmed no identifiable person seems unjust, and in a sense it is. But failing to do anything abo….

I believe we ought to subsidize some health care for the poor, but Medicare subsidizes everyone's health care.

The view that we know less than we thought we knew about how to change the human condition came, in time, to be called neoconservatism. Many ... , my….