John Ashcroft is not a patriot, John Ashcroft is a descendant of Joseph McCarthy.

I've waffled before. I'll waffle again.

I still want to be the candidate for guys with Confederate flags in their pickup trucks.

I was hoping to get a reception like this, I'd just hoped that it would be on Thursday night instead of Tuesday night.

I'm a committed Christian. I worship in my own way. That's my business. That's not the business of the pharisees who are going to preach to me about what I do and then do something else.

I'm just deeply disappointed that once again we may have to settle for the lesser of two evils.

We know that no one person can succeed unless everybody else succeeds.

I think with a lifetime appointment to the Supreme Court, you can't play, you know, hide the salami, or whatever it's called.

Tom DeLay ought to go back to Houston where he can serve his jail sentence.

I think the recovery hasn't been stronger because the hole that was dug for President Obama by the Bush administration was far worse than anybody could imagine, first of all.

The Democratic Party, all the candidates from Washington, they all know each other, they all move in the same circles, and what I'm doing is breaking into the country club.

Ideological opinion is not merely distinct from knowledge but the enemy of knowledge.

A book or poem which has no pity in it had better not be written.

Architecture must not do violence to space or its neighbors.

Arguments can always be found to turn desire into policy.

I have plumbed the depth of human cowardice and I realized that there is only one way to be right, and that is to be in power.

I don't like people who use the press to advance themselves in a way that they haven't earned as an actor, performer or director.

I'm on so late I'm definitely the last seconds of anyone's attention. So I just want to give them something dumb to laugh at, so they go, 'That's funny,' then fall asleep.

It is as well not to have too great an admiration for your master's work. You will be in less danger of imitating him.

Cofounder relationships are among the most important in the entire company.

Humour is the making others act or talk absurdly and unconsciously; wit is the pointing out and ridiculing that absurdity consciously, and with more or less ill-nature.