Demagoguery beats data in making public policy.

Programs that pay farmers not to farm often devastate rural areas. The reductions hurt everyone from fertilizer companies to tractor salesmen.

Three groups spend other people's money: children, thieves, politicians. All three need supervision.

You cannot get ahead while you are getting even.

Hillary Clinton bothers me a lot. I realized the other day that her thoughts sound a lot like Karl Marx. She hangs around a lot of Marxists. All her friends are Marxists.

If I were in the President's place, I would not get a chance to resign. I would be lying in a pool of my own blood hearing Mrs. Armey, standing over me, saying, 'How do I reload this damn thing?'

The American Dream is not to own your own home, but to get your kids out of it.

The average family pays more in taxes than it spends on food, clothing, and shelter combined.

Politics will sooner or later make fools of everybody.

The Democratic Party has pretty much abandoned all the things that they cherish.

The reason families need two incomes today is not to support themselves but to support the government.

There’s never a right or wrong side in a divorce case, but, given the human capacity for hate, the breakup of a legal relationship so tied to emotion often brought out the worst in people.

America, our endless blessings bestow an enduring burden. But as Americans, we welcome our responsibility to lead.

The world is a very complex and interesting place and that is what I really want my fiction to say: wake up to how amazing the world is.

I'm a terrible procrastinator. When we go to the airport, if they're not literally closing the door behind my sweaty, hyperventilating body, I feel I've been there too long.

It was always about the story rather than the character.

It's a little hard for me to stand behind the walls of the great mansion and play rock and roll star. I feel the need to give back.

Common sense is the knack of seeing things as they are, and doing things as they ought to be done.

I have a big, flamboyant, open personality, which I think is why people may be saying these nice things about me.

If your first response is, 'I can't do this,' then that is exactly where God wants you to be.

One begins with two people on a stage, and one of them had better say something pretty quick.