Jesse Jackson's living depends on the maintenance of an African-American victim culture

Big Government is erecting a panopticon state - one that sees everything, and regulates everything. It’s great “customer service,” except that you can never get out of the store.

Big Government is the small option: it's the guarantee of smaller freedom, smaller homes, smaller cars, smaller opportunities, smaller lives.

But, once you get a taste for shutting people up, it's hard to stop. Why bother winning the debate when it's easier to close it down?

The spirit of the age is: Ask not what your country can do for you, demand it.

Question: How much do you have to invest in the future before you've spent it and no longer have one?

LBJ held up Detroit as a model of what the Great Society could accomplish. He was right.

There may be many things wrong with the United States but only a blind fool who hasn't been paying attention for the last twenty years would hold up Europe as the alternative.

Those who can do. Those who can't form a supercommittee.

The Democratic Party is uniquely virulently racist and pro-slavery to a degree unseen anywhere in the English-speaking world!

The long-term cost of a welfare society is the infantilization of the population.

Be aware of your addiction to the addicted.

Christmas renews our youth by stirring our wonder. The capacity for wonder has been called our most pregnant human faculty, for in it are born our art, our science, our religion.

I've been around long enough for people to know who I am and what my contributions are. They know me as more than just an artist. I think they know me as a woman as well.

No amount of trying to inhale one more shred of inspiration is going to make it any easier to put your heart and soul out there.

Sorry to be so cynical, but this is New York

So whatever it is you want, need or desire or just like to have, you better try to get it now, 'cause this is the only time there is.

Romance is important, but to have a friend you can use as a mirror, who can give you an objective response, that's what's really important.

Art doesn't just happen by accident. It is about pulling out new tricks and trying new things.

There is the tendency to place ourselves and our ambitions at the center of our lives. This is very human, but it is not Christian.

I’m a guy that creates my own destiny in this world. Until I’m off the planet, there’s always a second chance.