It is the logic of consumerism that undermines the values of loyalty and permanence and promotes a different set of values that is destructive of family life.

Today Americans are overcome not by the sense of endless possibility but by the banality of the social order they have erected against it.

Relentless improvement of the product and upgrading of consumer tastes are the heart of mass merchandising.

It is advertising and the logic of consumerism that governs the depiction of reality in the mass media.

The family is a haven in a heartless world.

Nothing succeeds like the appearance of success.

The attempt to redefine the family as a purely voluntary arrangement grows out of the modern delusion that people can keep all their options open all the time.

When liberals finally grasped the strength of popular feeling about the family, they cried to appropriate the rhetoric and symbolism of family values for their own purposes.

Progressive rhetoric has the effect of concealing social crisis and moral breakdown by presenting them as the birth pangs of a new order.

George Orwell's contention was that it is a sure sign of trouble when things can no longer be called by their right names and described in plain, forthright speech.

The effect of the mass media is not to elicit belief but to maintain the apparatus of addiction.

Success, like happiness, is a by-product, not a goal.

Do not anticipate trouble, or worry about what may never happen. Keep in the sunlight.

The miracle centered gospel leads to getting something from nothing mentality.

If you're going to write about war, the ugly side is inevitable. Suffering and death are obviously part of war.

There's nothing trite about being consoled in a world that does everything in its power to deliver sorrow.

Several professional athletes have wrongly taught many young Americans by example that the only way to succeed in sports is to take steroids.

I love Richard Pryor. I love him to death.

I am fighting for those middle-class families who want us to deal with our debt and deficit, but they also want the investments that are critical to our country moving forward.

I love the 2000s because everyone started to love haute couture.