[democrats] have become the party of snobs. You have become the party of Americans who think they're better than other Americans.

The Democratic Party's complete obeisance to [the abortion] lobby makes Democrats look bought, frightened and craven.

What we need most right now, at this moment, is a kind of patriotic grace - a grace that takes the long view, apprehends the moment we're in, comes up with ways of dealing with it, and eschews the politically cheap and manipulative. That admits affection and respect. That encourages them. That acknowledges that the small things that divide us are not worthy of the moment; that agrees that the things that can be done to ease the stresses we feel as a nation should be encouraged, while those that encourage our cohesion as a nation should be supported.

The Democrats often seem like the Not Republican Party, no more and no less.

Some of the stupidest brilliant people who ever lived.

I was sailing from tedium to apathy with a side trip to torpor.

The biggest improvement in the flow of information in America in our lifetimes is that no single group controls the news anymore.