The Democratic party today is not so much a political party as a milling herd, and the herd is easily stampeded.

Women's liberationists spread the word that the only peaceful family is one in which either the wife is enslaved or the husband is androgynous.

Although millions of Americans purr with pastel delusions of Mohandas K. Gandhi, those who actually live in the scrawny crank's homeland struggle to throw off the painful aftermath of his quackery.

Those who believe patriotism to be the last refuge of the scoundrel have underestimated compassion.

Popular journalists resort to the name Nixon to galvanize feelings that remain at rest even when the name Stalin is mentioned.

One is more admired for claiming to do good than for proving to be right.

Mrs. Thatcher responded to our liberation of Grenada with the sounds of a somewhat hypersensitive Neville Chamberlain.

[A]n Obama presidency would be an amusing approximation of the Carter administration, complete with vaporous moralizing and foreign policy bungling.

...how horrible and beautiful it is, that our eyes blur the truth when we can't bear to see it.

Hope, in general, is dangerous. Hope can be the loose thread that pulls apart your sanity.

Other countries have outeducated us. They have made this a priority. And a big part of what I'm trying to do, frankly, is raise the profile of education and get America to wake up.

Even when we know what is right, too often we fail to act. More often we grab greedily for the day, letting tomorrow bring what it will, putting off the unpleasant and unpopular.

Art is something to be proud of. Art is no compromise.

What are children anyway? Midget drunks. They greet you in the morning by kneeing you in the face and talking gibberish. They can't even walk straight.

I was introduced to country music around a campfire on a farm.

When God contemplates some great work, He begins it by the hand of some poor, weak, human creature, to whom He afterwards gives aid.

Sometimes humanity is the reason we can't have nice things

The Absolute God of the universe, the creator, preserver, and destroyer of the universe, is impersonal principle.