In the real world, banks hang onto their money for fear of making bad loans, no matter how many bailouts or stimulus packages Washington passes.

Spontaneous combustion of grassroots politics is the future.

Anybody who thinks that getting a communication from a voter in your district is spam - that guy is pork. Roast pork unless he changes his point of view.

As Bob Dole found out, you can't keep a positive image while being your party's mouthpiece in Congress. That's why no legislative leader since James Madison has ever been elected president.

Democrats are not about to nominate anyone who backs the tax cut, and Americans are not going to elect anyone who favors a tax increase.

I didn't do what they said I did. I may have done enough so that I don't know if I can prove my innocence.

More and more, the Democrats are not merely inconsistent, wrong and/or misguided - they are the worst of all possible things you can be in Washington: irrelevant.

Take whatever position you want, but do take a position, because once you do, ample money awaits you on either side.

Washington is a mean town where human sacrifice has been raised to an art form.

The Darwinian adaptive trait of our time is the ability to figure out when we are being lied to on television.

Spin is overrated. It is strategy, not spin, that wins elections.

Search for the stranger inside you, forgotten even by your death.

Marriage is a blast. Like a bomb.

The wife of a careless man is almost a widow.

All these things that we are very nostalgic for come from a place of technology dictating [art]. This time and place is no different.

A people's literature is the great text-book for real knowledge of them.

Dale Earnhardt's opinion in the garage area is like God's to us.

Where civilization entailed the corruption of barbarian virtues and the creation of dependent people, I decided, I was opposed to civilization.

Those who would take over the earth and shape it to their will, never, I notice succeed.

If it's bitter at the start, then it's sweeter in the end.

As pride sometimes is hid under humility, idleness if often covered by turbulence and hurry.