A presidential speech is always the work of many hands.
Those who seem to despise half of America will never be trusted to govern any of it. Those who cherish only the country’s past will not be entrusted with its future.
Republicans have to move to a point of greater unity.
People who watch a lot of Fox come away knowing a lot less about important world events.
Life, as the signs in the liquor stores say, is too short to drink bad wine. And summer is too short to read bad books.
What I say is I am somebody who cares about conservative ideas. I want to see them implemented in governance.
Republicans have been fleeced and exploited and lied to by a conservative entertainment complex.
People who want to wage cultural wars ought to keep in mind that cultural views often don’t move at all for a very long time, but when they move they can move very fast.
The Iraq fight itself is probably going to go very, very fast. The shooting should be over within just a very few days from when it starts.
People need to understand that in Washington, the process is the punishment.
My view on candidates on money is unless it’s proven that the donor stole the money, the campaign keeps the money.
There are a lot of wonderful people in America who shouldn’t be on the Supreme Court – and a lot who should be on the court who aren’t such wonderful people.
Why should we not expect self-designated environmental leaders to practice what they preach?
I’m a latecomer to the environmental issue, which for years seemed to me like an excuse for more government regulation. But I can see that in rich societies, voters are paying less attention to economic issues and more to issues of the spirit, including the environment.
So if I have two pieces of cake, do I have twice as good an experience as the first piece of cake? One of the things I’ve found in life is that the first piece of cake is the best.
Nobody ever won an election by spitting at his political opponents.
The thing that sustains a strong Fox network is the thing that undermines a strong Republican party.
Speech writers are more vulnerable to vanity than any other group of people in Washington.
Whenever you discuss politics, it is always better to use individual names rather then the term neocon.
The big winners under the American fiscal system are the rich, who pay some of the lowest taxes anywhere in the world; the old, who are the main beneficiaries of the American social service state; farmers, rural people. These are Republican constituencies.