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

In ancient Israel and Rome the judge had appeared as a stand-in for the divine, and corruption was a blinding of the representative of the divine.

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

I love eulogies. They are the most moving kind of speech because they attempt to pluck meaning from the fog, and on short order, when the emotions are still ragged and raw and susceptible to leaps.

A great speech is literature.

The battle for the mind of Ronald Reagan was like the trench warfare of World War I: never have so many fought so hard for such barren terrain.

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