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Partly because of the desperate economic situation in the country, what were once the leading institutions of conservatism are constrained.

The five million people who watch cable news are the political nation, the people who really care.

Republicans have to move to a point of greater unity.

Events don't happen because I write a speech. I am allowed to write a speech because events are going to happen.

The thing that sustains a strong Fox network is the thing that undermines a strong Republican party.

Why should we not expect self-designated environmental leaders to practice what they preach?

People need to understand that in Washington, the process is the punishment.

Anyone who can be cool about his first visit to the Oval Office has lost so much body heat that rigor mortis is probably about to set in.

A novel makes it possible to understand not just events, but the people who control the events; not only their choices, but also their motives.

What I say is I am somebody who cares about conservative ideas. I want to see them implemented in governance.

If right and left are competing to be the biggest victim, who is competing to be the government?

We, as conservative intellectuals, should not be in the business of making excuses for bad parliamentary decisions by Republican leaders in Congress.

One can shape history as much through the facts one omits as through the facts one includes.

Today's Republican party is too beholden to factions generally.

I am really and truly frightened by the collapse of support for the Republican Party by the young and the educated.

Whenever you discuss politics, it is always better to use individual names rather then the term neocon.

People who watch a lot of Fox come away knowing a lot less about important world events.

If we say something often enough, we come to believe it. We don't usually delude others until after we have first deluded ourselves.

We've all been wrong- I certainly have- and we should thank those who set us right. Not always fun, but always best in the end.

In journalism I can only tell what happened. In fiction, I can show it.

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.

My view on candidates on money is unless it's proven that the donor stole the money, the campaign keeps the money.

Think tanks do have points of view, and they are absolutely entitled to defend them.

More Irishmen died fighting for Britain in World War I than died fighting against her in all of Ireland's bids for independence combined.

There is no right to work in a think tank, and these are very privileged positions.

Speech writers are more vulnerable to vanity than any other group of people in Washington.

Republicans originally thought that Fox worked for us and now we're discovering we work for Fox.

Look, the media are trapped by changes in the technology and business of their industry.

The elite isn't leading anymore. It's trapped.

Journalism can go right up to the door of the room in which the decisions are made. A novel can go inside the room - and inside the character's heads.

America under 30 is a more non-whites place than America over 60. And we know that non-whites and whites vote differently.

[In politics,] when there is no reason to speak, there is a reason not to speak.

Republicans have been fleeced and exploited and lied to by a conservative entertainment complex.

Nobody ever won an election by spitting at his political opponents.

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.

As thrilling as it was, speechwriting is ultimately frustrating for someone who wants to be a writer.

My mother cared more about how you reasoned than about the conclusions you reached.

Impostor: How George W. Bush Bankrupted America and Betrayed the Reagan Legacy.

A presidential speech is always the work of many hands.