Lack of transparency is a huge political advantage.

Lack of transparency is a huge political advantage. Call it the stupidity of the American voter or whatever, but basically, that was really, really critical for the thing to pass.

If any American really believes that Obamacare is going to control costs, I've got some real estate in Whitewater, Arkansas I'd like to sell them.

Exploiting the stupidity of the American voter is fun and easy: kinda like squeezing a lemon.

When we're done with employer-based health insurance, it will have as much life in it as Jimmy Hoffa.

The typical American voter is so stupid, his dog teaches him tricks.

Are you really questioning the wisdom of central planning? Because the happy citizens of Cuba and North Korea beg to differ.

The stupidity of the American voter is exceeded only by its slovenliness.

P.T. Barnum said a sucker is born every minute, but his estimate was laughably low.

Ultimately, what may be needed to address the obesity problem are direct taxes on body weight.

If you're a state and you don't set up an exchange, that means your citizens don't get their tax credits.

There's so much to appreciate about my life every single day, and I make a big point of taking time to smell the roses and noticing how lucky I am. I never want to take that for granted.

In human life, economics precedes politics or culture.

Read as you taste fruit or savor wine, or enjoy friendship, love or life.

Do not trust governments more than governments trust their own people.

The test of a first-rate work, and a test of your sincerity in calling it a first-rate work, is that you finish it.

You are not what you seem to be. You are one of God's endless dreams in search of wakefulness. Meditation is wakefulness.

I love the hamster but I think if I took him on tour he might die.

I began writing The Cold Song in the months following my fathers death, when I felt this sense of loss, disappearance, of being right in the middle of life and wondering: What now? How to proceed?

I was in a beauty contest once. I not only came in last, I was hit in the mouth by Miss Congeniality.

My emotional and intellectual response to Hiroshima was that the question of the social responsibility of a journalist was posed with greater urgency than ever.