Knowles: "The Right has focused on expanding economic liberty through tax cuts, free trade, and deregulation."

Knowles: "Speech is not violence. The Left conflates the two in order to justify its own violent reactions to differing points of view."

Knowles: "For decades, the pro-life movement has focused on scientific evidence and ethical arguments."

Knowles: "What is the purpose of the electoral college? It has a few purposes. One, it's to restrain pure democracy. Very good, very important, that's a wonderful thing."

Knowles: "From the beginning, religious faith animated the American quest to explore the heavens."

Knowles: "According to the politics of fantasy, mankind is on the verge of perfectibility, if only we give the government just a little bit more money and power."

Knowles: "Civil society begins with the family."

Knowles: "We do not gain or surrender our personhood as we age. We live one life from conception to death."

Knowles: "While liberal, coastal white girls may constitute the most conspicuous purveyors of pumpkin spice, the flavor's cultural connotations and the strong opinions they elicit reveal the drink's profound conservatism."

Knowles: "Our national future does not demand we revise and malign our past."

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

Knowles: "Capital punishment is neither cruel nor unusual."

Knowles: "All political debates, from tax policy to abortion, draw on moral arguments that rest on religious premises."

Knowles: "My own forefathers arrived in America in 1620 on the Mayflower."

Knowles: "A proper criminal justice system exacts justice - that is, punishes criminals for their crimes. Rehabilitation and deterrence are worthy goals, but they are secondary to retribution."

Knowles: "No argument for abortion survives scientific, philosophical, or theological scrutiny."

Knowles: "Every theistic religion, including Catholicism, Mainline Protestantism, Judaism, Mormonism, and Islam, has traditionally held homosexual congress in moral opprobrium."

Knowles: "The Left relies upon the politics of fantasy to tempt voters."

Knowles: "Donald Trump is certainly an American original. Barack Obama, he's an American original. Where else but in America could that man become president? George W. Bush, a very different man from his father. These guys, they have their distinct voice and their distinct agenda."

Knowles: "In reality, student loan forgiveness is welfare for the rich: a federal mandate that people who will make less money on average over the course of their lives bail out people who will make more money on average over the course of their lives."

Knowles: "Republicans have always tolerated greater intellectual diversity than Democrats."

Knowles: "The Left, however, resists anglicizing Spanish terms because its political agenda relies on encouraging illegal immigration from Latin America and discouraging the assimilation of Hispanics into American society."

Knowles: "Unborn babies - that is, fetuses, embryos, and even 'zygotes' - are innocent human beings."

Knowles: "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."

Knowles: "No one actually cares about blackface."

Knowles: "The belief that men and women are different, the decision to date a Christian girl, and the audacity to disagree with one's liberal friends suggest a radicalism so dangerous it merits a New York Times investigation."