When it comes to environmental regulation, the cruelty is the point.

Air travel dehydrates people.

Many of the environmental rules not only fail to protect the natural environment, they actually increase the damage.

Death, disease, and divorce affect wealthy suburbs as well as the inner city.

Some people bear great burdens with grace; others suffer minor inconveniences in misery.

No one actually cares about blackface.

All people of goodwill object to racial hatred. But no one cares that Billy Crystal darkened his skin to portray Sammy Davis Jr.

The Left wields blackface as a political cudgel, feigning offense and making excuses according to political convenience. Conservatives need not embrace the same cynical and vindictive tactics. We would prefer to live in a society marked by grace and civility rather than one marked by petty opportunism and cancel culture.

Freedom is a choice. The grace of God abounds, and man is nonetheless free.

In 'Jesus Is King,' Kanye is free.

Marriage is not for everyone.

Politics might be religion for the Left, but conservatives understand there is more to life than politics.

The conservative vision regards politics more as a matter of gratitude than entitlement - duty over rights. We have inherited so much: a wonderful country, a culture of freedom and abundance, even our life itself, earned through no effort of our own but bequeathed as a gift from our forefathers.

Liberty plays an important role in justice, and there can be no justice without liberty, which is the power to do what one wills. But government exists first and foremost for the purpose of justice, which inclines the will to give each and all their due.

Conservatives who defend libertinism as liberty misunderstand what our Founding Fathers meant. We all love freedom. But freedom has a higher purpose, as should conservatives.

Public crises, particularly those concerning life and death, offer demagogues ample opportunity to amass more power.

In medicine as well as politics, one cannot permit the cure to be worse than the disease.

Socialism ruins societies because it misunderstands human nature.

The American healthcare system is the worst form of healthcare other than all the other systems that have been tried.

The Left can have transgenderism or feminism, but it can't have both.

Either men cannot be women or there is not such thing as a woman.

Criminal justice reformers prattle on about 'over-incarceration' in America when in fact our nation suffers from an under-incarceration problem.

Conservative merchandise tends to aim at a point from a place of humor and exuberance, from Trumpy Bear to the 'Make American Great Again' hats to my own bestselling blank book 'Reasons To Vote For Democrats: A Comprehensive Guide.'

Fear of death and idolatry of youth have prompted vain neurotics to spend ever-greater fortunes on cosmetic products and surgeries to stave off age just a little while longer.

Disbelief in the consequences of wrongdoing has coarsened our society and alienated us one from another.

Conventional wisdom holds that the public disproportionately blames Republicans for government shutdowns. The disproportionate election of Republicans to the U.S. Senate following the Republican-led shutdown of 2013 should have put that canard to rest.

Politics presents few win-win situations for partisans on either side.

President Trump's critics call him an immoral lout. By strict moral standards, so are we all.

Republicans have always tolerated greater intellectual diversity than Democrats.

Any legitimate system of criminal justice must first concern itself with justice. If just punishments also deter, rehabilitate, or protect, all the better.

No one is better at deprecating President Trump than President Trump - just ask him.

A materialist age makes neurotics of those who measure their life in minutes. Teetotalling totalitarians know the cost of life, but not the value.

Both parties act in their political self-interest. Indeed, that's the purpose of a political party. But unlike Democrats, at least Republicans are honest about it.

Republicans stalled Merrick Garland's nomination to the Supreme Court because they could, and 136 years of American history recommended it as politically advantageous.

To this day, I have the most fond memories of some of my old toys.

There comes a point in your life when you realize how quickly time goes by, and how quickly it has gone. Then it really speeds up exponentially. With that, I think you start to put a lot of things into context; you start to see how huge the world is, and really, the universe.

I've changed my diet a few times. Now I'm trying to eat more protein. I eat little meals throughout the day. I love food, so I still give myself great meals. Also, when I'm busy, it's easy to lose weight.

Guys never really get over their toys.

In the household in which I was raised, the themes were pretty simple. 'Work hard. Don't quit. Be appreciative, be thankful, be grateful, be respectful. Also, never whine, never complain. And always, for crying out loud, keep a sense of humor.'

Filmmaking is the ultimate team sport.

Anesthesia is quite remarkable. It's lost time. And you wake up kind of refreshed.

I don't think there's anybody better than Leonardo DiCaprio, and I've been saying that since before anyone knew who he was.

David Letterman used to say, 'I wasn't the class clown, but I wrote for him,' and that's exactly it. You want to be known to be funny without having it pointed out.

I read that John Hughes script for 'Mr. Mom,' and I thought, 'This guy is a funny writer.' I went: 'You ought to stick around and direct this thing.' But he didn't; he left, and look what he became. A really legendary comedy director.

I don't want dogs that have had the personality trained out of them. It's a partnership. I want to connect.

I liked going to Catholic school.

If I'm going to meditate, there is a little church up in Montecito, California. It's an old Spanish mission, actually. I find it comforting in there.

Generally, I move in the direction of art.

From the time I was a kid, I was crazy about anything having to do with the West. I'd look at all of these photos of Montana, and they all seemed so magical and majestic. I just wanted to go west, and I finally did it when I was barely 21. I went off to volunteer at a Navajo reservation in New Mexico.

I'm the seventh child of George and Leona Douglas, and I don't ever remember a time when my father didn't work two jobs. When my mother was going to the grocery, or going to Mass, or trying to take care of seven kids in a run-down farmhouse.