You can recruit the populace conservatism for the interests of corporate conservatism that the two things can be married into one unholy union.

Whoever is holding the power says, "Yeah, let's keep things civil and quiet." Whoever's outside say's, "No, I'm not going to keep things civil and quiet, I'm going to bang on the door."

Liberalism doesn't speak to ideals. Radicalism does.

The Cold War was really the great struggle of the 20th Century and it shaped American political life from top to bottom.

What the Cold War did was provide a fairly clearly defined enemy and it's easy to organize around that.

Elite fundamentalism has always going to be involved with a certain set of conservative interests, but certainly not exclusively Republican.

Fundamentalism is a 20th-century phenomenon, but that kind of religious fervor actually has not always been associated with conservative goals.

There are real radical Muslim groups out there that really are pretty villainous. You don't have to make them up.

Liberals were just as engaged and using the rhetoric of a sort of a battle with the Soviets and with Communism in general, with an evil empire.

The Family is the oldest and arguably most influential religious political organization in Washington.

Elite fundamentalism has always been on the corporate side of things.

People are, generally speaking, either dead certain or totally indifferent (Both types are crawling around deep down in the rabbit's fur!)

...open the access to your heart and write down what your voice is whispering...

You scoundrel, you have wronged me, " hissed the philosopher, "May you live forever!

Murder most foul as in the best it is But this most foul strange and unnatural.

New Yorkers are stuck in a gloomy mucilage of mutual commiseration.

And now for something completely different...

I don't take the camera out with me. My eyes are the camera for me every day.

...and I discovered something: the meaning of my life was whatever I wanted it to be.

Things arrange themselves with time. Only God can have everything to His liking; His servants should act as Our Lord did.

Greatest risk of all: to be vulnerable, to allow others to see us as we really are