The stronger Hillary is, the weaker she is. The more she seems like a likely presidential winner, the more difficult the senate race becomes in New York. It's perfect.

Spontaneous combustion of grassroots politics is the future.

Anybody who thinks that getting a communication from a voter in your district is spam - that guy is pork. Roast pork unless he changes his point of view.

As Bob Dole found out, you can't keep a positive image while being your party's mouthpiece in Congress. That's why no legislative leader since James Madison has ever been elected president.

Democrats are not about to nominate anyone who backs the tax cut, and Americans are not going to elect anyone who favors a tax increase.

I didn't do what they said I did. I may have done enough so that I don't know if I can prove my innocence.

More and more, the Democrats are not merely inconsistent, wrong and/or misguided - they are the worst of all possible things you can be in Washington: irrelevant.

Take whatever position you want, but do take a position, because once you do, ample money awaits you on either side.

Washington is a mean town where human sacrifice has been raised to an art form.

The Darwinian adaptive trait of our time is the ability to figure out when we are being lied to on television.

Spin is overrated. It is strategy, not spin, that wins elections.

God in his infinite wisdomDid not make me very wise-So when my actions are stupidThey hardly take God by surprise.

Life without a Soul is like a universe without the stars

What I care about is what I care about. What you care about is what you care about. So let's add the planet to that list

Every story is informed by a worldview.

- Mr. Berg, Are you an Afrikaner?- Yes-And are you proud of it?-I am not ashamed of it, but I am not proud of it, for in fact I had nothing to do with it.

Bear patiently with a rival.

I'm attracted to subjects who overcome tremendous suffering and learn to cope emotionally with it

How does hating get started? It's started by the jealous people, and they get mad over the things you have.

I used to have a great love for Dostoyevsky and Tolstoy, the big boys of the last century.

If they want to get [my statue of] the Commandments, they're going to have to get me first.