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.

Here's a very good rule of thumb in politics: losing begets losing.

Science says the first word on everything, and the last word on nothing.

The perfect surrender and humiliation were undergone by Christ: perfect because He was God, surrender and humiliation because He was man.

Accept that you're just a product, not a gift.

It is neither cowardice nor betrayal to insist that the Enlightenment's main lesson is to be mindful of how much it has left its inheritors to figure out.

Don't go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first.

I like The Smiths - I would love to do a song with The Smiths, because they are so sonically different.

The only way to the top is killing and greed. Okay, I'm kidding. But killing helps.

We are but as the instrument of Heaven.

Just as my fingers on these keys make music, so the self-same sounds on my spirit make a music too.

Be magic choose and believe that you can do anything you set your mind to believe. We are who we choose to be.