A prompt, generous letter of thanks can seal a commitment which otherwise might disappear when the going gets rough.

Moral outrage is the most powerful motivating force in politics.

Never give a bureaucrat a chance to say no.

Winners aren't perfect. They made fewer mistakes than their rivals.

The winner in a political contest is determined by the number and the effectiveness of the activists on the respective sides.

Don't get mad except on purpose.

You can't save the world if you can't pay the rent.

In politics, nothing moves unless it's pushed.

Politics is of the heart as well as of the mind. Many people don't care how much you know until they know how much you care.

Political technology determines political success.

Actions have consequences.

Oh dear Sunday, I am so happy that I want your entire wisdom at my dinner table.

Enthusiasm is excitement with inspiration, motivation, and a pinch of creativity

Modernism in Vienna brought together science and culture in a new way to create an Age of Insight that emphasized a more complex view of the human mind than had ever existed before.

Great drama is all about conflict, and what's a better conflict than Republican-Democrat?

Cop families have guns in their houses.

People have crushes on priests all the time, you know. It’s exciting to have to deal with God as a rival.

I think that when you have kids, it's all about them.

It's shocking to me that it's easier to buy a gun at Wal-Mart than it is to buy my record.

The idolatry the exists in a man's heart always wants to lead him away from his Savior and back to self-reliance no matter how pitiful that self-reliance is or how many times it has betrayed him.

One of the easiest things in the world to do is to tell other people how to raise their children. This is especially easy if you have no children of your own.