"The more laws that governments pass, the less individual freedom there is. Any student of history will tell you that. Totalitarian countries ban pretty much everything."

"Drive through a yellow light, and you may be ticketed thanks to a camera tied onto a pole. Everybody's watching everything. And then sending it out to the world via email."

"The measure of a decent human being is how he or she treats the defenseless."

"Folks know that while I respect Barack Obama and do not cheap-shot the president, I am very skeptical of his big government, nanny-state philosophy."

"Every book has mistakes in them, every one. There's never been a book published without mistakes."

"Look, I debate for a living so I don't need to learn any lessons from amateurs."

"Whenever I go on a show with a comedian I just counter punch."

"I know that Oswald killed Kennedy. Now, was he pushed? Encouraged to do it by outsiders? Possibly. Possibly. Was he sitting down with Fidel Castro? No."

"I'm pretty busy."

"I don't really shout that much."

"They advertise on the radio for food stamps!"

"Jobs that cannot be delivered must never be promised. It's unfair to raise people's hopes that way."

"If the Americans go in and overthrow Saddam Hussein and it's clean, he has nothing, I will apologize to the nation, and I will not trust the Bush administration again."

"When I die, I don't want my demise to be used as a political rally, and that's what happened yesterday."

"You could put on monkeys jumping up and down and get bigger numbers than MSNBC."

"Lotsa people want to hurt me. That's the price you pay for being a big mouth."

"Dan Rather is guilty of not being skeptical enough about a story that was politically loaded."

"That's my advice to all homosexuals, whether they're in the Boy Scouts, or in the Army or in high school: Shut up, don't tell anybody what you do, your life will be a lot easier."

"I am who I am: an Irish Catholic kid, working class from Long Island. And I made it big."

"As the tree is bent, so it will grow."

"There comes a time when a human being has to either face evil or admit to allowing it. Abortion is legal in the United States, but it should not be celebrated or used as a political tool. Viable babies are human beings."

"I'm a sensationalist. I'm a big mouth. I get attention. In this world you have to - if you want a mass-market presentation, you have to get attention."

"Atheists well understand that Christmas is the most visible display of religion in the world, and that any diminishment of it is a good thing to militant secularists."

"The Tea Party is simply a loose description of local activism driven by Americans who want smaller government and more self-reliance. That sounds like what the Founding Fathers had in mind, does it not?"

"There is little anyone can do with fanatics. Reasoning with them is a fool's errand. Avoiding them is mandatory."

"Historically, Alaska is a place that has attracted those fed up with conventionality."

"When Elton John sang a duet with the white rapper Eminem on a Grammy telecast, rap went mainstream. Massive parental headaches followed."

"Americans will respect your beliefs if you just keep them private."

"I've been to Africa three times. All right? You can't bring Western reasoning into the culture. The same way you can't bring it into fundamental Islam."

"This country is a better place because Fox News has succeeded."

"I'm not writing a Ph.D. Dissertation."

"I'm not writing a Ph.D. Dissertation."

"I'm just a loud Irish guy."

"The goal of higher education should be to champion the airing of all honest viewpoints. Nothing less is acceptable."

"The traditional American family has always been the foundation for success in America."

"Public misbehavior by the famous is a powerful teaching tool."

"In prosperous times, the marginal workers get by. But in tough times, they get the shaft."

"The most powerful nation on earth should be able to pass a fair, effective immigration law that combines compassion with responsibility and does not injure hard working Americans who are taxed up to here."

"You can't be a real man if you don't look out for your kids. They need you."

"Single parent situations drive poverty and often lead to unsupervised kids. Many boys growing up without fathers often feel angry and abandoned. Thus, they seek comfort in all the wrong places."

"Yeah, I'm obnoxious, yeah, I cut people off, yeah, I'm rude. You know why? Because you're busy."

"As a former high school teacher and a student in a class of 60 urchins at St. Brigid's grammar school, I know that education is all about discipline and motivation. Disadvantaged students need extra attention, a stable school environment, and enough teacher creativity to stimulate their imaginations. Those things are not expensive."

"Texting is addicting. Once you get emotionally involved with constant outside stimulation assaulting your brain, it is hard to stop looking at your machine every two minutes. Without rapid fire words appearing on a screen, you feel bored, not part of the action."

"President Obama is a utopian at heart. He wants to improve the lives of the downtrodden, which is a good thing. But, he doesn't understand that damaging the free marketplace in pursuit of 'social justice' will eventually harm those whom he wants to help. The nation's crushing debt is a tsunami brewing off shore."

"My parents were children during the Great Depression of the 1930s, and it scarred them. Especially my father, who saw destitution in his Brooklyn, New York neighborhood; adults standing in so called 'bread lines,' children begging in the streets."

"One of the downsides of being famous is that folks pay far more attention to you than they should. American celebrities are constantly under surveillance, and every word they say is subject to scrutiny. So, be careful what you wish for if you desire fame. No human being should be a goldfish."

"The United States is considered a puritanical society by many Western nations. For example, they can't believe we hassle public servants like General David Petraeus because he had a mistress. In France, if a powerful man doesn't have a mistress, he's considered a wimp."

"I consider myself a law-abiding person. But I'm exhausted. I don't know where to put the bottles, newspapers, cans, and other stuff for garbage pickup outside my house. The rules are so thick you need someone from M.I.T. to explain them."

"Sociologists well understand that chaos at home causes violent behavior, educational failure and social alienation among children. Yet, many of us in America stay far, far away from this topic. That in itself is a national scandal. Bad parenting is gravely harming this nation."

"Far be it for the public schools to teach this, but the U.S.A. was founded on basic Judeo-Christian principles. Don't believe me - take a trip to Washington D.C. and tour the Supreme Court building. There you will see a sculpted copy of the Ten Commandments on the wall."