I'm a literalist. I believe what people say. When they say it, I think they mean it.

If Thomas Jefferson thought taxation without representation was bad, he should see how it is with representation.

Poverty is not the root cause of crime.

Liberals attempt through judicial activism what they cannot win at the ballot box.

We're not sexists, we're chauvinists - we're male chauvinist pigs, and we're happy to be because we think that's what men were destined to be. We think that's what women want.

End results that work that don’t involve government threaten liberals.

You know why there's a Second Amendment? In case the government fails to follow the first one.

Styrofoam and plastic milk jugs are biodegradable! Do you know what isn't biodegradable? Paper!

I think cigars are just a tremendous addition to the enjoyment of life.

The NAACP should have riot rehearsal. They should get a liquor store and practice robberies.

In a country of children where the option is Santa Claus or work, what wins?

The mind is not designed to grasp the laws of probability, even though the laws rule the universe.

My father, when he went, made my childhood a gift of a half a century.

I could never accept life as it was, I could never gobble down all its poisons bu there were parts, tenuous magic parts open for the asking.

Why is every great children's story about a journey? Maybe that's because we are always on one.

In the ordinary business of life, industry can do anything which genius can do, and very many things which it cannot.

I've always felt more at home in the UK than in France.

But what if we are dealing with fools?

Cancer had a chance to break me down, but I was determined to fight back with strength and positivity.

Ah come on, these streams of light are not so subtle. All along the ditch, signs of life in sinking puddles!

We needed to have a great set decorator, a great D.P., a great costume designer, everybody. Without all these people, we would have made a shitty movie.