The conservative idea is not that government has no role. You might have argued that in the thirties when conservatives opposed the New Deal.

When under attack, no country is obligated to collect permission slips from allies to strike back.

A drone is a high-tech version of an old army and a musket. It ought to be used in Somalia to hunt bad guys, but not in America. I don't want to see it hovering over anybody's home.

Chess: It's like alcohol. It's a drug. I have to control it, or it could overwhelm me. I have a regular Monday night game at my home, and I do play a little online.

To understand the workings of American politics, you have to understand this fundamental law: Conservatives think liberals are stupid. Liberals think conservatives are evil.

There's a reason why in New York Harbor we have the Statue of Liberty, not the Statue of Equality.

If fences don't work, why is there one around the White House.

In explaining any puzzling Washington phenomenon, always choose stupidity over conspiracy, incompetence over cunning. Anything else gives them too much credit.

Better to be paralyzed from the neck down than the neck up

Washington is the only place in the world where a gaffe is when a politician accidently speaks the truth.

Obsession with self is the motif of our time.

I'm sick of the images trapped in my headI'm sick of being preoccupied with the dead

Organic as a dandelion seed, [the ship of our imagination] will carry us to worlds of dreams and worlds of facts

The crown jewel of Dr. King's movement was to protect the right to vote for all citizens.

But the law of God came from heaven indeed. God wrote it with his finger, it is the fountain of all wisdom, and therefore shall it continue forever, and never have an end.

No two men are absolutely alike, not even twins, yet there is much that is indispensably common to all mankind.

When thou choosest a wife, think not only of thyself, but of those God may give thee of her, that they reproach thee not for their being.

What we need is an entrepreneurial society in which innovation and entrepreneurship are normal, steady and continuous.

What a man can take with a sword, a woman can give by her flesh alone. Life.

Canada is a live country - live, but not, like the States, kicking.