A man, if he be active and energetic, can hardly fail also, be he never so selfish, of benefiting the general public interest.

I was always a friend of southern rights, but an enemy of southern wrongs.

Might the peasant expect the Almighty to stay the thunder storm, which clears the air of a nation from pestilence, lest the lightning bold should in its flash kill his cow?

You think all teenagers care about are musicians and movie stars?Spend some time in Wisconsin.We'll blow your socks off.

I feel monotony and death to be almost the same.

We can have reasonable, thoughtful gun control measure that I think respect the Second Amendment and people's traditions.

Trying to be a socialist and a libertarian is obviously a very difficult balancing act, which nobody has pulled off too successfully in this century.

I work for two years on a book and it comes out and two days later I've got my first e-mail: When is the next one coming out?

Everywhere we look we see the encroaching shadow of the police state.

The first day of spring is one thing, and the first spring day is another. The difference between them is sometimes as great as a month.

Medicare is paid for by the American taxpayer. Medicare belongs to you. Medicare is for seniors, who many of them are on fixed income, to lift them out of poverty.

People comment on how you look, it's so unnecessary. I just wanted people to listen to what I have to say instead of focusing on anything else.

A soldier's longing to talk about his experiences of battle is a wound that never heals.