Ukraine conflict

"The best protection against evil is recognizing that it lies in every human heart and the possibility that it takes you over."

"Banning people from the town square is unpersoning them. Unless you violated a criminal statute, you should not be unpersoned in American society as a general rule."

"If you’re going to get involved in a war, you have to know what the endpoint looks like and you have to know what the American people really are willing to bear."

"Human beings are crap at mitigation and excellent in adaptation."

"Freedom of speech and thought matters, especially when it is speech and thought with which we disagree. The moment the majority decides to destroy people from engaging in thought it dislikes, thought crime becomes a reality."

"The idea that cooperation on an economic and other levels is any significant preventative device to madness breaking out is not something I see."

"The most important thing in wars is not final negotiations or anything like that, it’s simply winning and losing."

"If you don’t ever express any interest in the murder of Muslims in Syria, not any interest in genocide in Sudan, killing of hundreds of thousands of people in Yemen, but on the 8th of October, you are on the street with a placard attacking Israel, I’m sorry, you’re an antisemite for sure."