Fewer Americans are at work today than in April 2000, even though the population since then has grown by 31 million.

Natural erosion had reduced the critical barrier islands in the Gulf, the result of the destruction of some 300,000 acres of wetlands. This amounted to 30 miles of marshlands.

The most critical factor subduing the demand for housing is that home ownership is no longer seen as the great, long-term buildup in equity value it once was.

These days, government employees are better off in almost every area: pay, benefits, time off and security, on top of working fewer hours.

Surely, if Mother Nature had been consulted, she would never have consented to building a city in New Orleans.

Americans cannot maintain their essential faith in government if there are two Americas, in which the private sector's work subsidizes the disproportionate benefits of this new public sector elite.

The unique danger today is the possibility that we may face longer-term stagnation as a consequence of relying too heavily on borrowed money.

Before you build a better mousetrap, it helps to know if there are any mice out there.

Never buy a saddle until you have met the horse.

He does what he thinks God would do if God only knew the facts.

Never have I experienced a serenity and sweetness of disposition as with my Chocolate Lab.

May the Lord strengthen you for every great work.

I'm pretty sure there's a lot more to life than being really, really, ridiculously good looking. And I plan on finding out what that is.

You never have to listen to a famous person, it's an elective.

War being the greatest of evils, all its accessories necessarily partake of the same character.

I wish thy lot, now bad, still worse, my friend, for when at worst, they say, things always mend.

If I write for myself, I write a song and I bring in the musicians that are best suited to play it. There's a freedom there.

The very life which we enjoy is short. [Lat., Vita ipsa qua fruimur brevis est.]

It is not the job of mathematicians... to do correct arithmetical operations. It is the job of bank accountants.

One has to be insincere and promise something which you cannot fulfill. So you either have to be a fool who does not understand what you are promising, or deliberately be lying.