Personal connections may give comfort, but are no substitute for true institutional checks or true experience of a man's character, which many of Mr. Madoff's clients seemed not to have.

WSJ: Put Madoff In Charge of Social Security

In Barack Obama we have a man with little patience or taste for true leadership, with a defining disproportion between his experience and his power, who is a bigger hypocrite than Romney and far more consequentially so.

FORBES: For President, The Principled Endorsement Is Nobody

Some people have ambition, and some people don't and that's true whether they're a man or a woman.

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