“Conservatism vests in and depends on the widespread, informed understanding of human nature, self-governance and the First Principle of Progress: free people interacting in free markets produce the greatest good for the greatest number always, but only, when tethered to virtue and morality.”

“Follow me if I advance, kill me if I retreat, avenge me if I die.”

“He who looks in the crystal ball ends up eating glass... They're way, way close.”

“I am not a total, complete nitwit when it comes to selling books. I promise you there will be unexpected things. Some of them I don't know yet. She's writing it all herself.”

“I was a comfort factor. I'm not a hustler.”

“No, no, no. Dick Cheney forbade me to waste time on his image. I would have liked to have done more.”

“When I walk down the boardwalk, people stop me and say, 'Oh, your house is the one that glows.'”