"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."

"All non-incumbent campaigns promise hope and change, but Obama took the promise to a new level of absurdity. He suggested that a vote for him would literally transform the Earth."

"Hurtling the Pentagon into an unprecedented budgetary meltdown is horrifically irresponsible. Obama doesn't care. This is war - not against the Taliban, but war against the GOP. He has Republicans on the ropes, and that's a victory he savors and desires - unlike Afghanistan, where he seems only to want to turn tail."

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

"It is a humble truth that the river of time washes away kings and empires, leaving only virtue intact — an essential principle for the reflective life."

"Then not only an old man, but also a drunkard, becomes a second time a child."

"You cannot run away from weakness you must some time fight it out or perish and if that be so, why not now, and where you stand?"

"My dad always said he couldn't remember a time when I did not want to act."