Conservatism is a hard choice for a society that has become accustomed to big government and big entitlements promoted by liberals.

On your principles, you should never yield; you should be prepared to be defeated. Nobody likes to be defeated, but you should let everybody know in the most articulate and thoughtful and civil way you can (you don't go out and pick fights with people) that in certain matters that you define as matters of principle you will not budge, you cannot yield, you will not compromise. If you don't have the votes or the winning argument, then you stand to be defeated and rolled over, and you'll just have to come back another day.

What I am suggesting is hard work and it can be slow work, but the rewards are well worth it.

Within my own lifetime, I have seen the most ferocious assaults on Christian faith and morals; first on the part of the intellectual community, and then on the part of the government... the federal government has not even tried to conceal its hostility to religion.

The interests of the United States are better served by demanding reform and seeing that reform takes place than by removing our influence from the U.N.

Democracy used to be a good thing, but now it has gotten into the wrong hands.

Conservatism is a hard choice for a society that has become accustomed to big government and big entitlements promoted by liberals.