In its worse forms, conservatism is a matter of 'I hate strangers and anything that's different.'

Fiscal conservatism is just an easy way to express something that is a bit more difficult, which is that the size and scope of government, and really the size and scope of politics in our lives, has grown uncomfortable, unwieldy, intrusive and inefficient.

Never wear anything that panics the cat.

We Americans, who invented traffic, are always being startled by the forms into which it has evolved around the world.

Maybe the real secret to America's greatness is that we hate one another.

Mikhail Gorbachev was the Jimmy Carter of the Communist bloc. The Russians hate him.