I'm a small government conservative.

I have no way of knowing how people really feel, but the vast majority of those I meet couldn't be nicer. Every once in a while someone barks at me. My New Year's resolution is not to bark back.

I was up late last night yapping about the elections on CNN and up early this morning doing the same thing in my daughter's kindergarten class.

The modern tribalism of the left demands that each person choose a group and then agree with everything that group agrees with. And anybody who leaves that group is stoned to death.

Canada is a sweet country. It is like your retarded cousin you see at Thanksgiving and sort of pat him on the head. You know, he's nice, but you don't take him seriously. That is Canada.

Feminism's latest victory: the right to get your limbs blown off in war. Congratulations.

Anybody who sides with Canada internationally in a debate between the U.S. and Canada, say, Belgium, is somebody whose opinion we shouldn't care about in the first place.

Unless you know a lot more about something than I do, I am not really that interested. I have too much information already.

It is nice to be around people who think differently than you. They challenge your ideas and keep you from being complacent.

It is increasingly important to be open-minded.

I will say, the one thing Mexico does well is punish prisoners. They do. They're good at that.

Then the world will be for the common people, and the sounds of happiness will reach the deepest springs. Ah! Come! People of every land, how can you not be roused.

When faced with a difficult situation, do not panic but pray!

All fathers are liars . . . If you want to be a father, you have to be prepared to become a liar.

The flower is the poetry of reproduction. It is an example of the eternal seductiveness of life.

I'm kind of a homebody. I like to sit at home and watch movies and eat good food.

Binge eating is another eating disorder that people really don't realize is a problem.

Oh, comfortable cocoa!

On the contrary, all the world would point to that nation as violating a treaty, by going to war with a country with whom they had engaged to enter into arbitration.

When everything goes without a hitch, where's the challenge, the opportunity to find out what you're made of?

I actually enjoyed getting lost in Japan's backroads, finding myself in a wasabi farm.