Government proposes, bureaucracy disposes. And the bureaucracy must dispose of government proposals by dumping them on us.

Giving money and power to government is like giving whiskey and car keys to teenage boys.

There are a number of mechanical devices which increase sexual arousal, particularly in women. Chief among these is the Mercedes-Benz 380SL convertible.

Mercedes Benz : A mechanical device that increases sexual arousal in women.

Tabasco sauce is to bachelor cooking what forgiveness is to sin.

A firm, hearty handshake gives a good first impression, and you'll never be forgiven if you don't live up to it.

At the core of liberalism is the spoiled child — miserable, as all spoiled children are, unsatisfied, demanding, ill-disciplined, despotic and useless. Liberalism is a philosophy of sniveling brats.

There's a whiff of the lynch mob or the lemming migration about any overlarge concentration of like-thinking individuals, no matter how virtuous their cause.

Even very young children need to be informed about dying. Explain the concept of death very carefully to your child. This will make threatening him with it much more effective.

Watching Republicans in Washington is like watching lemmings, if lemmings jumped into cesspools instead of off cliffs. Splash! There goes Mark Foley!

Authority has always attracted the lowest elements in the human race

I have a secret passion for mercy. But justice is what keeps happening to people.

The process by which civilization, as an abstract entity distinct from the societies in which it is embodied, dies or is reborn is a very significant one.

God’s grace is freely available but in order to receive it you have to realize you are lost without it.

Hell is God's great compliment to the reality of human freedom and the dignity of human choice.

Give me someone I can look up to, show me someone I can love.

If government were less important in our lives, politicians would have fewer goodies to trade. In return, we'd have more money and more freedom.

Only the dead will know the end of the war.

Now we have this idea that, not only do you go to first grade to learn your family's language, but you go to a university to learn about the person you were before you left home.

The French hold onto their traditions. I was always so alienated in America. My work was this constant reaction to that.

Unless and until you have developed a heart inundated with compassion, do not sit on the seat of judgement.