Balanced budget requirements seem more likely to produce accounting ingenuity than genuinely balanced budgets.

It is hard to imagine a more stupid or more dangerous way of making decisions than by putting those decisions in the hands of people who pay no price for being wrong.

When you want to help people, you tell them the truth. When you want to help yourself, you tell them what they want to hear.

Racism is not dead, but it is on life support -- kept alive by politicians, race hustlers and people who get a sense of superiority by denouncing others as 'racists'

It takes considerable knowledge just to realize the extent of your own ignorance.

Any politician who can be elected only by turning Americans against other Americans is too dangerous to be elected.

The next time some academics tell you how important diversity is, ask how many Republicans there are in their sociology department.

Liberals seem to assume that, if you don't believe in their particular political solutions, then you don't really care about the people that they claim to want to help.

I have never understood why it is "greed" to want to keep the money you have earned but not greed to want to take somebody else's money.

Capitalism knows only one color: that color is green; all else is necessarily subservient to it, hence, race, gender and ethnicity cannot be considered within it.

The first lesson of economics is scarcity: there is never enough of anything to fully satisfy all those who want it. The first lesson of politics is to disregard the first lesson of economics.

Keep a grateful journal. Every night list five things that you are grateful for. What it will begin to do is change your perspective of your day and your life.

No one has a right to happiness.

There's some people that are 24 hours with the baby and it doesn't make a difference. They could be anywhere.

The first lie of fiction is that the author gives some order to the chaos of life: chronological order, or whatever order the author chooses.

With my Les Paul, I know I'm small. But I enjoy living anyway.

Only love for Christ has the power to incapacitate the sturdy love for self that is the bane of every sinner, and only the grace of Christ has the power to produce that love.

Just when I thought it couldnt get no hotter I fell in love with the farmer's daughter

Indifferent souls never part. Impassioned souls part, and return to one another, because they can do no better.

Anyone contemplating world war is certifiably insane, no matter how calm they seem.

What would constitute useful history? That which should teach us our duties and our rights, without appearing to teach them.