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" American exceptionalism is grounded in the founding of the United States upon an idea, rather than upon the ambitions of men. "

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" When government gets out of the way, the people achieve great things because of the promise of great rewards. "

" Working for President Nixon was the most extraordinary professional experience of my life. He was endlessly fascinating: brilliant, visionary, kind, generous, warm, funny - and yes, a good man. "

" Ann Romney has been front-and-center. She's held a lot of town halls, a lot of campaign rallies, on her own, separate from her husband. And she is dynamite out on the campaign trail. "

" President George W. Bush's aggressive war on Islamic terrorism produced a 100 percent perfect track record of keeping the United States safe from another attack. The result has been increased security for the American people, who, in turn, have become complacent about the true nature of the threat. "

" When the world lacks muscular and wise American leadership, it devolves into total chaos, which, in turn, produces unspeakable evils. "

" Mr. Obama's choices show how fundamentally unserious he is about deficit reduction and spending restraint. "

" Trillions of dollars are being spent in the name of 'saving' the economy: bailouts, 'stimulus,' omnibus spending bills, budgets, government takeovers of the auto, health care and energy industries, all of which require ever more spending. "

" Each day of the Obama presidency seems to bring a new, perversely delicious irony. "

" From 2002 to the end of his presidency, George W. Bush routinely was accused by the Left of 'creating chaos:' chaos in Iraq, chaos in Afghanistan, chaos in the Muslim world, chaos among our allies. "

" During President George W. Bush's two terms, you couldn't drive far without seeing a particular bumper sticker: 'Dissent is the highest form of patriotism.' "

" Barack Obama is not Harry Truman, who dropped the A-bomb on Japan to stop World War II. Barack Obama is not John F. Kennedy, who lowered marginal tax rates to get economic growth and job creation. Barack Obama and the far left, they are a completely different ball of wax. "

" Occupy Wall Street didn't just spring from the earth organically, out of thin air. This was all part of the global socialist movement. "

" Germany was beaten after World War I, but it didn't take long for it to rise again as a much more malignant threat. The end of World War II was not to be a compromise; it was to come about from the total annihilation of the enemies' ability and will to make war. "

" Some political spouses are much more comfortable on the campaign trail than others, and they take to it a lot more naturally. "

" Michelle Obama is a major asset for the president. "

" The Islamic terror threat is so fierce, unrelenting and barbaric that we tell ourselves fairy tales about how these ruthless acts are anything but what they are: acts of war. "

" Many Muslims may not seek to kill the infidel, but they don't want to condemn those carrying out the holy book command. "

" Either a war has to be fought, or it doesn't. "

" Presidents Truman and Nixon left office under dark clouds of scandal and with abysmal levels of support, but with the passage of time, both have been reassessed far more positively. "

" Mr. Obama seeks to federalize large portions of education, beginning with his attempt to nationalize college student loans. "

" One day in 1984, at the height of his fame, Michael Jackson made a visit to the White House. President and Nancy Reagan may not have dug his music, but they understood the power Mr. Jackson commanded as a common pop-cultural touchstone for just about everyone else. "

" We need the ability to buy healthcare insurance across state lines that would increase competition and drive down cost. "

" It is an abuse of power, when you are President of the United States, to use the White House to single out a single news organization, and castigate them and try to delegitimize them. "

" A people fatigued by bad presidential judgment aren't inclined to reward him or his party. "

" When I visited Guantanamo Bay several years ago, I met a team of psychiatrists treating the detainees. When I asked how they distinguished between, say, schizophrenia or bipolarity and a bedrock religious commitment to holy war, they couldn't answer. "

" The tactics of Saul Alinsky and Barack Obama are geared toward wealth redistribution. "

" I developed the concept of the Happy Warrior as a rallying cry for those of us who want to restore America to its great foundational principles: individual freedom, personal responsibility, fiscal restraint, and economic liberty. "

" If you have small-government, traditional values, you may be considered by your own leadership to be an enemy of the state. "

" A president is always cosseted by his staff. "

" Voting is as much an emotional act as it is an intellectual one. "