The presidency is not an entry-level electoral job.

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.

Magic is difficult to describe, to understand and to come to terms with and many people don’t want to feel different or unusual.

Revolution does have to be violent precisely because the Pharaoh won't let you go. If the Pharaoh would let you go, the revolution won't have to be violent.

Lord, make me an instrument of thy peace. Where there is hatred, let me sow love.

So, one way or another, I found myself in a few movies. I take it seriously when I'm on the set, but I don't take myself seriously as an actor.

Pressure and stress is the common cold of the psyche.

Let us strive for personal, practical integrity in every endeavor, regardless of how mundane or inconsequential it may seem.

Stillness overcomes heat.

One of the many hazards of socializing with vampires. It makes you smell bad. A minor hazard, comparatively.

I've made up stuff that's turned out to be real, that's the spooky part.

Man may dismiss compassion from his heart, but God never will.