Democrats are not about to nominate anyone who backs the tax cut, and Americans are not going to elect anyone who favors a tax increase.

Spontaneous combustion of grassroots politics is the future.

Anybody who thinks that getting a communication from a voter in your district is spam - that guy is pork. Roast pork unless he changes his point of view.

As Bob Dole found out, you can't keep a positive image while being your party's mouthpiece in Congress. That's why no legislative leader since James Madison has ever been elected president.

I didn't do what they said I did. I may have done enough so that I don't know if I can prove my innocence.

More and more, the Democrats are not merely inconsistent, wrong and/or misguided - they are the worst of all possible things you can be in Washington: irrelevant.

Take whatever position you want, but do take a position, because once you do, ample money awaits you on either side.

Washington is a mean town where human sacrifice has been raised to an art form.

The Darwinian adaptive trait of our time is the ability to figure out when we are being lied to on television.

Spin is overrated. It is strategy, not spin, that wins elections.

Despite romantic fantasies about caring candidates who learn of America in donut shops, most politicians rely on media to teach them what concerns the average person.

Mattia's voice no longer stirred anything in his stomach, but he was aware of the idea of him and always would be, as the only true benchmark for everything that had come afterward.

She told me that women who wore makeup had bad values. Putting on makeup would have been a statement—a rebellion. I didn’t try it. I grew to feel guilty for wanting to feel attractive.

Why should a man fear since chance is all in all for him and he can clearly fore-know nothing? Best to live lightly as one can unthinking.

There's nothing better than a 200 lb snatch, if you know what I mean.

If you are saved, the work is only half done until you are employed to bring others to Christ.

As for me, I always train for 12 rounds just in case. I don’t train for three, four, one, or 10 rounds - I have to train for 12 because you never know what will happen that night.

In college, the fans cheer the whole game, from start to finish. In the NBA it's really laid back.

The morning glories and the sunflowers turn naturally toward the light, but we have to be taught, it seems.

It was not a friendly game, and Jerry certainly did not have friendliness in his eyes. He had an extra mean streak that day. He was out of control and probably should have been ejected.

The overwhelming majority of people are comfortable with consensus, but successful investors tend to have a contrarian bent.