Craig Shirley Quotations

Right now you could flip a 12-sided coin and come up with the nominee.

Now that [Reagan's] place in history is secure, [liberals] are trying to remake him. A pernicious myth is that Reagan and Tip O'Neill were great friends.

If we are to put the past on trial, where do we stop?

We live in very, very, very dangerous times.

The natural condition of the modern conservative movement is to always be in a state of revolution. Conservatives are, by definition, uncomfortable with power.

You have to break through and you have to do that with very effective advertising. You have to do it with reach, impact, and repetition.

There have been a lot of conservative leaders and politicians who have been successful as book authors, starting with Barry Goldwater, Ronald Reagan and Newt Gingrich.

'Yes we can' always struck many as a naive and childish chant, like something ripped off from the Camp Fire Girls.

These people work astonishingly long hours. With BlackBerries and cell phones, you don't have any privacy. You can't get away from it.

Among Republicans, there is universal outrage that Gore and the Democrats won't accept the results of the election and are manipulating the system for their partisan reasons, ... which should make a lot of people concerned that they are so obsessed with having power they will do anything to achieve it.