Is victory sweet because your side wins - or is it really because the other side loses?

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.

I never worry about diets. The only carrots that interest me are the number you get in a diamond.

To look beyond our horizons is to acknowledge that we’ve hemmed ourselves in by creating them in the first place.

I can't do anything else until the words in my head are set free.

Rose and I have gone on the most incredible journey over the past two years

The bosom can ache beneath diamond brooches; and many a blithe heart dances under coarse wool.

I love rock, pop, and funk. I love being able to blend these three and create something unique for people.

Let me leap out of the frying-pan into the fire; or, out of God's blessing into the warm sun.

After being let go from CBS and looking for a year for work, I will never catch myself complaining about being too busy.

Hillary Clinton has an entire media empire that constantly demonizes Donald Trump, fails to point out several signs of illness by her.

A cheery relaxation is man's natural state, just as nature itself is relaxed. A waterfall is concerned only with being itself, not with doing something it considers waterfall-like.