If the party of gloom is ever to regain its footing, it will have to start by understanding that those who defeated them are not a bunch of ignorant yahoos looking forward to Armageddon.

The facts of life are conservative.

Liberal dominance of important areas of America's social and political life has undermined many of the virtues that have sustained this country.

The entitlement mentality so carefully cultivated by liberal academics, politicians, clergymen, and journalists continues to corrode the self-sufficiency that once defined the American character.

Homelessness came into being because liberal policy makers embraced a series of foolish ideas.

Truth telling is the first building block of character -- a quality that seems to be getting rarer and rarer in all-forgiving America.

Every liberal initiative, from welfare to antismoking measures, is justified by reference to 'the children.' Yet the clear result of liberal policies is to harm children even more than adults.

One might have thought that the Cold War's conclusion would have convinced the Left that appeasement of dictators is not profitable.

Any stimulus package amounts to taking money from the pockets of some Americans and placing it in the pockets of others who have better political connections.

Liberals and international diplomats (a distinction without a difference) have notorious difficulty understanding how to deal with totalitarian regimes.

Abused And neglected children have paid the price for liberalism's tendency to sentimentalize the poor.

I don't know why, but the Bible always seems to come to me in my time of need, even with the exact words.

No single, individual moment is in and of itself unendurable.

I love acting. When I'm acting I feel like I'm on vacation. I'm just having a wonderful time. The nightmare is just getting the work to happen.

I do find acting cathartic.

There are so few people that wake up every day and go do something that they dont dread... Im very lucky.

Everybody shut up. Let us work.

I hate high heels. Walking in high heels for eight hours a day should be forbidden by the Geneva Convention.

The resource of life is everywhere, even in the smallest of things and we're never very far from it.

Let any man speak long enough, he will get believers.

Show me a great actor and I'll show you a lousy husband. Show me a great actress, and you've seen the devil.