The purpose of U.S. foreign policy is protecting the security of Americans, not crusading for goodness abroad.

What is a left-wing socialist but a Marxist without a gun?

...China has announced that...it will hold the beach volleyball contest at the site of the 1989 massacre. Even Hitler didn't have the chutzpah to stage the 100-yard dash at Dachau.

When your head is firmly in the sand, another part of your anatomy is fully exposed.

Joe Lieberman may be Moses on the stump, but when it comes to policies and votes, he boogies with the Golden Calf.

A healthy society is life-affirming. Homosexuality is the metaphysical negation of life. Incapable of reproduction (giving life), it can replenish its numbers only by seduction.

By and large, reporters and editors are devoutly secular and deeply distrustful of those who act on faith.

Concerning First Amendment fetishism - A federal subsidy for a photo of a crucifix suspended in a jar of urine is fine, but religious figures on stamps are offensive.

To suggest that conservatives have a monopoly on hate is an ideological mugging of reality.

No other group (traditional Christians) is so consistently maligned on prime-time television. These defamatory portrayals betray a deep-seated hostility.

Christians are the only group Hollywood can offend with impunity, the only creed it actually goes out of its way to insult... The tenets of Christianity are regularly held up to ridicule.

Walk in truth. Leave footprints of honesty.

Your life is your journey. You have to enjoy it because no one can feel or see it for you.

I was coming from a very cerebral, dark, difficult, layered play by Christopher Hampton and doing an action movie in Hollywood (Die Hard) with explosions, and I was holding a gun.

I have a hunch the most important reason we're going to space is not known now.

Gas prices - it is $6 a gallon here. People in L.A. are furious. You can't tell, of course, because of the Botox.

I know a man in Ft. Worth with 100,000 head of cattle. No bodies, just heads.

I think the more stressful our times get, the more we look for fantasy escapes.

it is the liberty that is the mother, not the daughter, of order.

I come from extremely liberal people, one of only 20 in Texas where I grew up.

When it comes to actually writing, I like to write in a full room with the amps blasting, and a big drum set.