AEI Alumni Jeane Kirkpatrick, US Ambassador to the United Nations

Irving Kristol Conservative intellectual

A neoconservative is a liberal who's been mugged by reality.”

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AEI Alumni

James Q. Wilson Social scientist, coauthor of “Broken Windows” approach to law enforcement

In the long run, public interest depends on private virtue.”

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AEI Alumni

Michael Novak Philosopher, theologian, Templeton Prize winner

The spirit of democratic capitalism is the spirit of experiment, adventure.”

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AEI Alumni

Ben J. Wattenberg Coauthor, “The Real Majority”

What’s real in politics is what the voters decide is real.”

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AEI Alumni

Gerald Ford US President

A government big enough to give you everything you want is a government big enough to take from you everything you have.”

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AEI Alumni

Robert Bork Solicitor General and federal judge

Those who made and endorsed our Constitution knew man's nature, and it is to their ideas, rather than to the temptations of utopia, that we must ask that our judges adhere.”

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AEI Alumni

Herbert Stein Economist

If something cannot go on forever, it will stop.”

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AEI Alumni