America is great not because it's a team. America is great because it is a nation whose founding documents elevated the rights of the individual.

Every great political campaign rewrites the rules; devising a new way to win is what gives campaigns a comparative advantage against their foes.

Conservatives must avoid the siren song of schism, or all is lost.

Comedians and impressionists used to be two different showbiz animals entirely, but now there's no such thing as a comedian who doesn't do impressions.

Pop culture is a reflection of social change, not a cause of social change.

There's no light at the end of the tunnel in the Republican message, no promise of better things to come. There's only the present stagnation, followed by a slow decline.

I was wholeheartedly attracted to the conservative atmosphere that permeated the city of Washington.

I look at 'The New York Review of Books.' It's what it has been for 35 or 40 years, which is a highly sophisticated vehicle for anti-American self-hatred.

While negativity is politically useful, it is also demoralizing unless it is accompanied - and to some extent overshadowed - by elevated and inspiring ideas about the American future.

Your race and gender don't change, but you can choose to change your political affiliation at will.

The problem is that borrowing money to pay back more borrowed money that will oblige you in the future to borrow even more money doesn't sound kosher. Because it isn't.

Skin color doesn't make you different, " Melody said. "We're all the same on the inside."The only people who ever say that, " Raymond replied, "are white.

Every man passes his life in the search after friendship.

A woman is always buying something.

All through school, people told me I looked like Marcia Brady.

My sentiments for the American cause, from the Stamp Act downward, have never changed... I am still of opinion that it is the cause of liberty and of human nature.

Men are like parking spaces: all the good ones are taken, and the available ones are handicapped.

I stop two hours before a fight

Do you know what astonished me the most in this world? The inability of force to create anything.

War is not civilized.

That's something that I've always gotten: a sense of humanity, a sense of awareness of yourself and the world around you.