One thing about liberals: It doesn't even occur to them that there is another side to an argument. They are so convinced of the righteousness of their own position that it doesn't dawn on them that a reasonable person might have a different viewpoint.

Earth to Democrats: Displaying contempt for the American people when you are being paid by those people to serve their interests is generally not a good political move.

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.

During his public life, Barack Obama has often referred to his biracial background and itinerant childhood and has said, 'In no other country on Earth is my story even possible.' True.

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

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

Messrs. Washington and Lincoln would be appalled and saddened by what their successor, President Obama, and the modern Democratic Party are doing to the nation they dedicated their lives to keep alive.

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.

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

A president is always cosseted by his staff.

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.

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

The man who was known as 'no drama Obama' during the campaign has given us nothing but depleting and infuriating drama since he arrived in office.

A president is supposed to calm the American people with sober decision-making in the national interest.

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

During the 2008 presidential campaign, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid marveled at the electability of Barack Obama because, unlike previous black candidates, Mr. Obama was 'light-skinned' and lacked a 'Negro dialect.'

The Left can play the race card incessantly without consequence or punishment, but woe to anyone else who even breathes valid opposition to their policies: Thou shall be deemed a racist.

Not once since becoming president has Mr. Obama linked terror aimed at the United States with Islam.

Does every Muslim commit terror? Of course not.

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

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.

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.

There are plenty of Muslims who live faithfully in the United States.

Give the enemy an inch, he'll take a yard.

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

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.

Weak presidents are neither respected nor electorally rewarded by their publics.

There is no greater tyranny than that which is perpetrated under the shield of the law and in the name of justice.

I have always observed that to succeed in the world one should seem a fool, but be wise.

To become truly great, one has to stand with people, not above them.

When the legislative and executive powers are united in the same person, or in the same body of magistrates, there can be no liberty; because apprehensions may arise, lest the same monarch or senate should enact tyrannical laws, to execute them in a tyrannical manner.

There is no crueler tyranny than that which is perpetuated under the shield of law and in the name of justice.

The tyranny of a prince in an oligarchy is not so dangerous to the public welfare as the apathy of a citizen in a democracy.

Power ought to serve as a check to power.

The less men think, the more they talk.

But constant experience shows us that every man invested with power is apt to abuse it, and to carry his authority as far as it will go.

If we only wanted to be happy, it would be easy; but we want to be happier than other people, and that is almost always difficult, since we think them happier than they are.

I have always observed that to succeed in the world one should appear like a fool but be wise.

If triangles had a god, they would give him three sides.

Liberty is the right to do what the law permits.

The deterioration of a government begins almost always by the decay of its principles.

Useless laws weaken the necessary laws.

I have never known any distress that an hour's reading did not relieve.

Society is the union of men and not the men themselves.

We should weep for men at their birth, not at their death.

A nation may lose its liberties in a day and not miss them in a century.

It is not the young people that degenerate; they are not spoiled till those of mature age are already sunk into corruption.

Religious wars are not caused by the fact that there is more than one religion, but by the spirit of intolerance... the spread of which can only be regarded as the total eclipse of human reason.

No kingdom has shed more blood than the kingdom of Christ.

Liberty is the right of doing whatever the laws permit.