As with most liberal sexual ideas what makes the world a better place for men invariably makes it a duller and more dangerous place for women.

Novels are the Socratic dialogues of our time. Practical wisdom fled from school wisdom into this liberal form.

Enraging liberals is simply one of the more enjoyable side effects of my wisdom.

My family is almost exactly like the one in 'Monsoon Wedding'. We are very open fairly liberal loud people.

One side-effect of the so-called war on terror has been a crisis of liberalism. This is not only a question of alarmingly illiberal legislation but a more general problem of how the liberal state deals with its anti-liberal enemies.

Conservatives saw the savagery of 9/11 in the attacks and prepared for war liberals saw the savagery of the 9/11 attacks and wanted to prepare indictments and offer therapy and understanding for our attackers.

We've finally given liberals a war against fundamentalism and they don't want to fight it. They would except that it would put them on the same side as the United States.

There used to be this feeling under Eisenhower and Kennedy and Roosevelt and Truman that government was a solution. Trust in the presidency fell precipitously under Johnson - real lows. And it's never come back. It's a trend that if you're liberal is really discouraging.

I don't trust liberals I trust conservatives.

One of the most pervasive political visions of our time is the vision of liberals as compassionate and conservatives as less caring.