Some candidates need to say provocative things that make noise to break through the media muffle and get themselves noticed.

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.

Your pretense does not fool me, gnome. My eye will be upon you.

Sierra, it's Christmastime. Put a stupid mistletoe over his head and kiss him already!

If they are gods, why do you lament them? If you lament them, you must no longer regard them as gods.

God keeps giving Himself as long as we bring that into which He can pour Himself. And when we stop bringing, He stops giving.

The desire to please those we admire and respect often cripples conscience.

Voluntary association produces the free market - where each person can choose among a multitude of possibilities.

You all right now?" "I'm exceptional. Wonderful. Thanks for the concern. You complete me.

No intelligent man believes that anybody ever willingly errs or willingly does base and evil deeds; they are well aware that all who do base and evil things do them unwillingly.

Acheron. When it absolutely, positively must be destroyed overnight.

I just enjoy working with really wonderful actors and amazing creative people and I hope to keep doing that, no matter where.