Insulting the electorate and accusing it of spiritual weakness and sinfulness are not the ways to get yourself the job of president.

Every great political campaign rewrites the rules; devising a new way to win is what gives campaigns a comparative advantage against their foes.

Conservatives must avoid the siren song of schism, or all is lost.

Comedians and impressionists used to be two different showbiz animals entirely, but now there's no such thing as a comedian who doesn't do impressions.

Pop culture is a reflection of social change, not a cause of social change.

There's no light at the end of the tunnel in the Republican message, no promise of better things to come. There's only the present stagnation, followed by a slow decline.

I was wholeheartedly attracted to the conservative atmosphere that permeated the city of Washington.

I look at 'The New York Review of Books.' It's what it has been for 35 or 40 years, which is a highly sophisticated vehicle for anti-American self-hatred.

While negativity is politically useful, it is also demoralizing unless it is accompanied - and to some extent overshadowed - by elevated and inspiring ideas about the American future.

Your race and gender don't change, but you can choose to change your political affiliation at will.

The problem is that borrowing money to pay back more borrowed money that will oblige you in the future to borrow even more money doesn't sound kosher. Because it isn't.

Being able to inspire the body is an easy feat, but being able to inspire the soul as well is true talent.

You can never please people enough. But you can only be yourself.

I’ll take stolen kisses and trysts in the cane fields for as long as I live over a life without you in it.

The discipline in your life should be one determined by your own desires and your own needs, not put upon you by society or authority.

It is hardly complimentary to God that we should choose him as an alternative to hell.

One great part of every human existence is passed in a state which cannot be rendered sensible by the use of wideawake language, cutanddry grammar and goahead plot.

Enthusiasm could not supply the place of experience.

Betray mean terror of ridicule, thou shalt find fools enough to mock thee; but answer thou their language with contempt, and the scoffers will lick thy feet.

I am in constant search for that project that speaks to me personally. And when all the pieces come together properly, it'll happen.

People call me a nerd because I like to spend time on the computer.