Like most people, I have no wish to live in a community organized by community organizers.

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.

I'm poor and my cat is huge.

I wish I had been a better mother and a more compassionate and understanding wife in both of my marriages.

What strikes me is that theres a very fine line between success and failure. Just one ingredient can make the difference.

Some caregivers want to reciprocate the care they themselves received as children.

Violating human rights is integral to the project of neoliberalism and global hegemony.

So it is the business community and agricultural community who I think might have the most influence on helping us make this effort more bipartisan.

It is far better to be happy than to have your bodies act as graveyards for animals. Accordingly, the apostle [St.] Matthew partook of seeds, nuts and vegetables, without meat.

The composition is already there, you just need to crop it

Happy endings always made her cry. It was the relief.

The president's need for complete candor and objectivity from advisers calls for great deference from the courts.