Human progress is achieved by taking exact measurements.

Though liberals do a great deal of talking about hearing other points of view, it sometimes shocks them to learn that there are other points of view.

I'd rather entrust the government of the United States to the first 400 people listed in the Boston telephone directory than to the faculty of Harvard University.

Liberals claim to want to give a hearing to other views, but then are shocked and offended to discover that there are other views.

The best defense against usurpatory government is an assertive citizenry.

Back in the thirties we were told we must collectivize the nation because the people were so poor. Now we are told we must collectivize the nation because the people are so rich.

What yells out at the US public . . . is the incandescent hypocrisy of so many people who, in the name of free speech, persecute its practitioners if their opinions are conservative.

Liberals, it has been said, are generous with other peoples' money, except when it comes to questions of national survival when they prefer to be generous with other people's freedom and security.

I won't insult your intelligence by suggesting that you really believe what you just said.

The socialized state is to justice, order, and freedom what the Marquis de Sade is to love.

When it is not possible to reason with holy warriors, it is necessary to immobilize them or crush them.

You didn't have to attract desire. Either it was in the woman who aroused it or it didn't exist. Either it was there at first glance or else it had never been.

Take a perfect day add six hours of rain and fog and you have instant London.

I have some road rage inside of me. Traffic, especially in L.A., is a pet peeve of mine.

A woman's strength is most potent when robed in gentleness.

In Quiet Dell, Phillips mesmerizingly spins together fact and fiction, vividly imagining the circumstances leading to their deaths, and sets a young female reporter on the case to solve it.

People always come up to me and say, 'you should do standup.' It's nice to discover things about yourself. That keeps everything lively and fun.

Great wits are sure to madness near allied, and thin partitions do their bounds divide.

The tongue is the most remarkable. For we use it both to taste out sweet wine and bitter poison, thus also do we utter words both sweet and sout with the same tongue.

Did you hotwire this car?" I then rephrased my question. "Did you STEAL this car?

The measure of a man is not necessarily his title or his position, but rather how he treats others.