Great Throughts Treasury

"The Republican establishment has decided they don't want any part of conservatism, and this is really not new. People surprise to hear this. But the republican party formative event of conservativism is Goldwater's landslide defeat. That's what they think of when they think "conservative". They don't think Reagan. They think Goldwater. They believe what the inside-the-Beltway philosophy is about conservatives: they're racist, sexist, bigot, homophobe, Southern hayseed hicks. They're pro-lifers, they're embarrassing to have to go to convention with them, and they're just embarrassed to have those kind of people in the party."

"The way liberals are interpreting the First Amendment today is that it prevents anyone who is religious from being in government. They say that violates the prohibition against church and state."

"The truth does not require a majority to prevail, ladies and gentlemen. The truth is its own power. The truth will out. Never forget that."

"There are more acres of forest land in America today than when Columbus discovered the continent in 1492."

"There are more American Indians alive today than there were when Columbus arrived or at any other time in history. Does this sound like a record of genocide?"

"There's a simple way to solve the crime problem: obey the law; punish those who do not."

"We are born to action; and whatever is capable of suggesting and guiding action has power over us from the first."

"We need to shut down this Gitmo prison? Well, don't shut it down - we just need to start an advertising campaign. We need to call it, 'Gitmo, the Muslim resort.' Any resort that treated people like this would have ads all over the New York Times trying to get people to come down and visit for some R&R, for some rest and relaxation."

"The worst of all of this is the lie that condoms really protect against AIDS. The condom failure rate can be as high as 20 percent. Would you get on a plane — or put your children on a plane — if one of five passengers would be killed on the flight? Well, the statistic holds for condoms, folks."

"We can take this country back. All we need is to nominate the right candidate. It's no more complicated than that."

"There is one other business where the customer is always wrong and that's the media."

"We want everybody to succeed. You know why? We want the country to succeed, and for the country to succeed, its people - its individuals - must succeed."

"When a nominee for the Supreme Court, one of only nine lifetime appointments, makes an overtly brazen racist comment about tens of millions of American citizens, we don't need lectures. What we need to do is to confront her with what she said and what it says about her."

"You could afford your house without the government if it weren't for the government."

"Will some reporter, or some Republican on the Sunday shows, please ask why tax cuts raid the non-existent Social Security Trust Fund but all the Democrats' new spending doesn't? Will someone please ask that?"

"You know I have always tried to be honest with you and open about my life, so I need to tell you that part of what you have heard and read is correct. I am addicted to prescription pain medication."

"You know why there's a Second Amendment? In case the government fails to follow the first one."

"You know, this is all BS, as far as I'm concerned. Cross species evolution, I don't think anybody's ever proven that. They're going out of their way now to establish evolution as a mechanism for creation, which, of course, you can't do."

"You've got enough in here that people who get hold of this — like AP or any of the state-controlled media — they're going to focus on the soap opera aspects of your book and they're going to ignore what is truly one of the most substantive policy books I've read."

"A bunch of liberals wanted to outlaw men gazing at women because the gaze was said to objectify women. Sorry, liberals, it can't be helped among the heterosexual crowd."

"Obamacare is not about improved health care or cheaper insurance or better treatment or insuring the uninsured, and it never has been about that. It's about statism. It's about expanding the government. It's about control over the population. It is about everything but health care."

"A Gorbasm, ladies and gentlemen, is fake. A Gorbasm is a phony feeling of bliss and euphoria. Mikhail Gorbachev was credited by the media, and by many liberals in this country, with preserving the peace and security of the planet threatened by warmonger Ronald Reagan, and with bringing freedom to Eastern Europe and what used to be the Soviet Union."

"A Georgetown coed told Nancy Pelosi?s hearing that the women in her law school program are having so much sex they?re going broke, so you and I should have to pay for their birth control. So what would you call that? I called it what it is. So, I?m offering a compromise today: I will buy all of the women at Georgetown University as much aspirin to put between their knees as they want. ? So Miss Fluke and the rest of you feminazis, here?s the deal. If we are going to pay for your contraceptives and thus pay for you to have sex, we want something. We want you to post the videos online so we can all watch."

"A loyal liberal can get away with anything with other liberals, as long as that loyal liberal is liberal and attacks conservatives left and right, spouts the right words, they get away with anything."

"A United States collapse would be much different than a Greece collapse. Greece can collapse, and there's a ripple. We collapse, and the world feels it."

"A thought-provoking recipe for reclaiming America's heritage of liberty and self-governance."

"Apple is to the United States government what Clarence Thomas was to the civil rights coalition. How dare you get this big sidestepping us."

"All I do is convert liberals to conservatism. That's what I do, and that's why they don't like me."

"Animals often treat each other with no respect, and they have no redress, absent human intervention on their behalf. Regardless of that, I believe that if people use animals to achieve their goals, they must do so responsibly, so that we don?t eliminate any species from the planet. That would be wantonly stupid and selfish."

"As a professional broadcaster, I can tell you that over the course of my career, there is an adage: don't ever apologize."

"Barack Obama happens to be the first African-American, and so criticism of him is and always was gonna be racism, and therefore not permitted."

"Barack Obama, foreign policy wizard. I just have to laugh."

"Barack Obama's enemies are the people who make this country work. Barack Obama's enemies are those who succeed. Those are the people whose income he wants to redistribute. Those are the people whose income he wants to take, using the power and the force of the federal government to do it."

"Basic Economics 101. It's the most complicated simple subject there is."

"Basically a bunch of miserable, angry people exploiting death."

"Being a conservative union member is almost like being an actor in Hollywood: You don't dare say it, or you might be injured on the job, or you might be laid off, or your family might have something happen to them."

"As far as I'm concerned, the people who aren't paying taxes don't get to run around claiming that they built everything, that the built the roads and that they built the bridges and so forth."

"Barack Obama did not inherit a mess. He leads a mess. He inherited the United States of America, where anything is possible."

"Barack Obama doesn't think this country should be number one. If it were number 35 it'd be fine with him."

"As always, we are thrilled and excited to have with us the vice president of the United States ... with us for a precious few minutes."

"By government giveaway programs, individuals are often hurt far more than they are helped. The recipients of these programs become dependent on the government and their dignity is destroyed. Is it compassionate to enslave more and more people by making them a part of the government dependency cycle? I think compassion should be measured by how many people no longer need it. Helping people to become self-sufficient is much more compassionate than drugging them with the narcotic of welfare."

"But some Americans, sadly, are not interested in victory. And yet they want us to believe that their behavior is Patriotic. Well, it's not. When the critics are more interested in punishing this country over a few incidents at Abu Grahib and Guantanamo Bay than they are in defeating those who want to kill us; when they seek to destroy a foreign surveillance program which is designed to identify those who want to kill us and how they intend to do it; when they want to grant those who want to kill us, U.S. constitutional rights, I don't call that patriotic."

"Black unemployment is terrible. The black frame of mind is terrible, they're depressed, they're down ? Obama's not doing anything for 'em. How is that hoax and change workin' for ya? They're all livid. I mean, they thought there were gonna be an exact 180-degree economic reversal and it's done nothing but get bad for everybody, but they're especially upset about it because they look at him as one of them, and now they feel abandoned. And I'm sure Tiger Woods' choice of females not helping 'em out with their attitudes there either."

"By the way, anybody know the difference between Barack Obama and an empty suit? Snerdley, you know? I don't know what the difference is, either. Sorry."

"By the way, I don't mean to pick nits here, but Obama has just ordered the flag at half-mast for 10 days for Mandela. He did not order the flag at half-mast at all for Lady Thatcher."

"Charity is willingly given from the heart."

"Bigot - a person who wins an argument with a liberal"

"Bring on the next vacancy. We are on a roll."

"Capitalism is always evaluated against dreams. Utopia is a dream. It doesn't exist."

"Canada has an immigration policy you might want to emulate. They want more skilled and educated immigrants. In fact, that's all they take. But, see, since nobody's watching them, and they're not a superpower, nobody really cares. So they are allowed to act in their best interests."