Conservatives value economic liberty and moral security, while the liberal values economic security and moral liberty.

[There] is something fundamentally unpatriotic in the yearning to fundamentally transform your country.

The Founders understood that democracy was important, but if you didn't filter it through a republican system you'd be just as likely to end up with a tyranny of the majority as you would with a healthy society. Don't worry, I won't quote the Federalist Papers, but trust me, it's in there.

The government cannot love you, and any politics that works on a different assumption is destined for no good.

[American] liberalism today sees no realm of human life that is beyond political significance, from what you eat to what you smoke to what you say.

Hollywood's martyr-mythology leaves out the fact that the famed Hollywood Ten, for example, were in fact members of the Communist Party, which advocated the violent overthrow of the U.S. government in violation of the Smith Act and which took orders directly from Moscow.

I think as - all in all, it's better to have a cool president than a not cool president.