I smoke a cigar or two a day. I did have a brownie once. It made me sleepy.

The best humor is offered up to you by the stupidity of your opponents.

Capitalism works better from every perspective when the economic decision makers are forced to share power with those who will be affected by those decisions.

The Moral Majority supports legislators who oppose abortions but also oppose child nutrition and day care. From their perspective, life begins at conception and ends at birth.

When community action was put into federal law in the early sixties as part of the effort to combat poverty and social injustice, I supported it intellectually.

These two entities—Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac—are not facing any kind of financial crisis.

People are entitled to the presumption of innocence.

Most people who are activists and are concerned about issues get their information from sources which reinforce their opinions and give them the facts that they want to hear.

But it is also clear that left entirely untouched by public policy, the capitalist system will produce more inequality than is socially healthy or than is necessary for maximum efficiency.

They appear to have become so attached to their outrage that they are even more outraged that they won't be able to be outraged anymore.

This bill is the legislative equivalent of crack. It yields a short-term high but does long-term damage to the system and it's expensive to boot.

I must choose to cease from suffering or to cease from loving.

Each day comes as an opportunity to push your dream closer to its reality. So don't let it pass you by without having anything tangible to account for it.

An investment said to have an 80% chance of success sounds far more attractive than one with a 20% chance of failure. The mind can't easily recognize that they are the same.

There are personal reasons, psychological reasons, but there could also be political reasons for becoming a terrorist.

Getting staked had been a hard lesson in choosing one's friends wisely.

There is a degree of depravity in mankind which requires a certain degree of circumspection and distrust.

Now whatever you think of the liberal agenda on its merits, until very recently nobody thought the Constitution meant what liberals now say it means.

His [Donald Trump] name is on everything. He is a celebrity. But he is not a governor. He has never run government. He is a business executive.

It's hard to change adults, and it's hard to change it from a political position or a perceived political position.

The first duty in life is to be as artificial as possible. What the second duty is no one has as yet discovered.