Small scale is critical to local life, to the ability of local people to control what happens where they live.

Self-professed liberals are only 15 to 20% of the electorate.

Self-professed conservatives comprise about 40% to 45% of the electorate.

They want everybody to vote. I don't want everybody to vote. . . . As a matter of fact, our leverage in the elections quite candidly goes up as the voting populace goes down.

We are talking about Christianizing America. We are talking about the Gospel in a political context.

The Fox News cable channel is doing very well because there is a market for what Fox News has to offer.

Policy makers still think that if we just hand out more money the world's problems will be solved.

Absent scandal, a federal judge can serve for decades on the bench, underscoring the importance of appointing judges who have a proper understanding of their constitutional role.

The White House alone cannot hold its opponents accountable.

Second, a quarter to a third of those who listen to Rush Limbaugh and Sean Hannity are liberals.

Politics aside, it will be hard for any new liberal radio network to outdo the professionalism of NPR.

He was my age and in my imagination he was a fireman, not the kind that actually fights fires but the kind who travels the country shirtless posing for calendars.

I don't want to be the one to tell somebody, You will not make it, even though I know that the majority of those who come to me with their manuscripts are not really good enough.

In my former life I was in insider, as much as anybody else. And I knew what it's like, and I still know what it's like to be an insider. It's not bad.

We are becoming so accustomed to millions and billions of dollars that 'thousands' has almost passed out of the dictionary.

. . . unless there comes to the Nation a greater emancipation than Lincoln's Proclamation effected, it is doomed, it is bound to go down.

I never fall in love.

What was it about high school that made people think with their insecurities instead of their brains?

Everything Mengistu has done since 1977 has been to place himself in a position of uncontestable power. Neither Haile Selassie nor any of the previous emperors had this insatiable thirst for power.

I write what's given me to write.

The wisest among you is he whose sustenance is the fear of Allah.