Government has a habit of blaming the private sector for its own failings while taking credit for advances we in fact owe to the private sector.

If the Tenth Amendment were still taken seriously, most of the federal government's present activities would not exist. That's why no one in Washington ever mentions it.

Keynesians think that you can take water from the deep end of the swimming, pump it into the shallow end of the swimming pool and somehow the water level of the swimming pool will rise.

The power to regulate the value of money does not involve a power to dilute the value of money by inflation, an absurd and self-serving rendering.

She was in control of her life, even though it seemed she wasn’t. All she had to do was take the steering wheel and start driving.

Parents had some kind of sin radar, Claire thought. They always called when you were in the middle of something you just knew they'd consider wrong. Or at least risky.

Growing up in an old-fashioned Bengali Hindu family and going to a convent school run by stern Irish nuns, I was brought up to revere rules. Without rules, there was only anarchy.

In some way the secret vice exhales its poison; and the evil passion, however cunningly masked, stains through to the surface.

It is play and only play that makes man complete.

Virtually all of Africa's civil wars were started by politically marginalized or excluded groups.

Fire has always been and, seemingly, will always remain, the most terrible of the elements.

Like strength is felt from hope, and from despair.

Art never expresses anything but itself.

There is no moral difference between a stealth bomber and a suicide bomber. Both kill innocent people for political reasons.