When liberals finally grasped the strength of popular feeling about the family, they cried to appropriate the rhetoric and symbolism of family values for their own purposes.

Ideologies, however appealing, cannot shape the whole structure of perceptions and conduct unless they are embedded in daily experiences that confirm them.

Nothing succeeds like the appearance of success.

A growing awareness of the depth of popular attachment to the family has led some liberals to concede that family is not just a buzzword for reaction.

The job of the press is to encourage debate, not to supply the public with information.

The left has lost touch with popular opinion, thereby making it possible for the right to present itself as the party of common sense.

Conservatives have no understanding of modern capitalism. They have a distorted understanding of the traditional values they claim to defend.