Watergate is the great liberal illusion that you can have public virtue without private morality.

Communism is the opiate of the intellectuals.

They say that women talk too much. If you have worked in Congress you know that the filibuster was invented by men.

[On Vice-President Henry A. Wallace:] Much of what Mr. Wallace calls his global thinking is, no matter how you slice it, still globaloney.

[On the Democratic Party:] Its leaders are always troubadors of trouble; crooners of catastrophe ... A Democratic President is doomed to proceed to his goals like a squid, squirting darkness all about him.

Rome is the city above all cities which loses most of its meaning to those who do not bring to it some historical sense, a decent knowledge of art, and a good amount of time. Rome therefore is particularly disturbing to an American.

Women know what men have long forgotten. The ultimate economic and spiritual unit of any civilization is still the family.