The United States is the single greatest force for good in the world

I recall asking the late eminent liberal historian Arthur Schlesinger, in a public forum in Los Angeles in the late 1970s, if he would say that America was, all things considered, a better, i.e., more moral, society than Soviet society. He said he would not.

The only thing socialists produce is debt and self-esteem

Not everyone wants to be happy

Prayer is not asking God to do something, it's asking God to help YOU do something

Big government squashes the human spirit

There is no benefit to the conservative sinner in being a conservative. There is great benefit to the liberal sinner in being a liberal.