Politics is about winning. If you don't win, you don't get to put your principles into practice. Therefore, find a way to win, or sit the battle out.

He is a founder and current president of the David Horowitz Freedom Center and edits FrontPage Magazine. Horowitz has recounted his ideological journey in a series of retrospectives culminating with his 1996 memoir Radical Son: A Generational Odyssey. Horowitz was raised by parents who were members of the Communist Party USA.