Media does not get everything they want all the time. The Democrats certainly don't. They don't win every election, and they don't win every battle.

If Thomas Jefferson thought taxation without representation was bad, he should see how it is with representation.

Poverty is not the root cause of crime.

Liberals attempt through judicial activism what they cannot win at the ballot box.

We're not sexists, we're chauvinists - we're male chauvinist pigs, and we're happy to be because we think that's what men were destined to be. We think that's what women want.

End results that work that don’t involve government threaten liberals.

You know why there's a Second Amendment? In case the government fails to follow the first one.

Styrofoam and plastic milk jugs are biodegradable! Do you know what isn't biodegradable? Paper!

I think cigars are just a tremendous addition to the enjoyment of life.

The NAACP should have riot rehearsal. They should get a liquor store and practice robberies.

In a country of children where the option is Santa Claus or work, what wins?

I now understand that writing fiction was a seed planted in my soul, though I would not be ready to grow that seed for a long time.

I have lost control over everything, even the places in my head.

When God wants to do an impossible task, He takes an impossible person and breaks her.

Intelligence is usually easy to tell in a 10-minute conversation. Determination is harder.

Everyone can lie, young Roger, given cause enough. Even me. It's only that it's harder for those of us who live in glass faces; we have to think up our lies ahead of time.

The right time to show your good character is when you are pestered by someone weaker than you.

When I was starting to write, the great influence was T.S. Eliot and after that William Butler Yeats.

People's lives are in the care of the railways when they get on a train. The railways should remember that.

Dear young people, do not give up your dreams of a more just world!

Nothing makes a man so adventurous as an empty pocket.