Ronald Reagan has a story for every occasion. Bill Clinton has an excuse for every occasion.

Overreaction is one of the things that congress specializes in. I can't think of anything congress does better than overreact.

President Obama insists hes a free-market guy. But you have to wonder whether he understands how a free economy really works.

The only person who was a strong public opponent of the war in Iraq is Barack Obama. The other people weren't. So I can understand why all the left is mad, because they're being shut out.

The American people are not as casualty-sensitive as the weenies in the American press are.

The most important quality any piece of writing can have is doneness.

Religion's crucial role in the lives of many people... is rejected out of hand by the political community, especially the press.

One endured with humble dignity the consequences of youthful folly.

I discovered Christopher Isherwood in college. His writing style is so direct, warm, and inclusive.

Since the baptismal rebirth takes place only with the one Bride of Christ, where could he be born who is not a son of the Church?

A game of rugby is a work of art!

There is a God in heaven who overrules all things for the best; and this is the comfort of my soul.

Una's face was an unbroken block of calculation, saving where, upon her upper lip, a little down of hair fluttered. Yet it gave one an uncanny feeling. It made one think of a tassel on a hammer.

The pure soul is a pure lie.

Oh! To not need cognitive justification for every single thing. Wouldn't that be a life?

Those are my favorite kind of parts to do, just being a goofball and seeing how far you can go with something until you're just way out of line.

For men were born to pray and save: Romantic Ireland's dead and gone, It's with O'Leary in the grave.