I don't think it's possible to write a good play or paint a good picture and be a good Republican.

It is television's primary damage that it provides ten million children with the same fantasy, ready-made and on a platter.

A candidate for office can have no greater advantage than muddled syntax; no greater liability than a command of language.

You cannot throw words like heroism and sacrifice and nobility and honor away without abandoning the qualities they express.

For every five well-adjusted and smoothly functioning Americans, there are two who never had the chance to discover themselves. It may well be because they have never been alone with themselves.

Generosity with strings is not generosity: it is a deal.

We pity or condemn the communist peoples of the world for being bound in the chains of doctrine. So are we. Our doctrine runs as follows: Our Way is the Only Way.