The debate about the war seems pretty robust and free. Many publications, from the New Yorker to the Nation, feel perfectly comfortable printing anti-American articles and that's fine. That's what the First Amendment is all about.

- Rich Lowry

There's no wobble in Bush. If anything, the opposite. Right after hello, the next words out of his mouth are: I've never been more convinced that the decisions I made are the right decisions.

- Rich Lowry

The senior officer who met with reporters in Baghdad said there had been 21 car bombings in the capital in May, and 126 in the past 80 days. All last year, he said, there were only about 25 car bombings in Baghdad.

- Rich Lowry

Clinton's fakery was so deft and deeply ingrained that it was impossible to tell where it ended and the real Bill Clinton began. This constituted a kind of political genius.

- Rich Lowry

Message to Obama: Fighting the Clinton machine won't be as easy as picking up favorable press clips.

- Rich Lowry

John Kerry couldn't even order a Philly cheesesteak properly.

- Rich Lowry

It is Hillary's lot in life not to be able to fake it well.

- Rich Lowry

If Bill was all id, Hillary is all superego.

- Rich Lowry

Bush's faith in the rightness of his strategy in the broader war is deep-seated. It is a product of faith.

- Rich Lowry

Bill Clinton was a liberal who could appeal to conservative-leaning Bubba voters.

- Rich Lowry

Al Gore's performances could be a case study in abnormal-psychology classes.

- Rich Lowry

Al Gore adopted three utterly different personas in three national presidential debates.

- Rich Lowry

Yes, this is 21st-century America. Where we have better means to treat mental illness than ever before, but choose to let the insane people decide to get it or not.

- Rich Lowry

When they are treated, the seriously mentally ill aren't more violent than the general population. If untreated, though, they are.

- Rich Lowry

Parents are the most likely to be victims of the violence of their mentally ill children.

- Rich Lowry

France will always be France no matter what, but America involves striving toward an ideal.

- Rich Lowry

Because liberalism typically doesn't sell in American presidential politics, liberal candidates tend to run as culturally conservative centrists.

- Rich Lowry

Almost all political campaigns involve falsity and playacting.

- Rich Lowry

In person, George W. Bush is extremely forceful. He has a restless energy when he sits in a chair, and nearly leaps out of it when making certain points.

- Rich Lowry

You have to check out 'March of the Penguins'. Penguins are the really ideal example of monogamy.

- Rich Lowry