Nothing in our Constitution suggests that government is a grantor of rights. Instead, government is a protector of rights.

But let me offer you my definition of social justice: I keep what I earn and you keep what you earn. Do you disagree? Well then tell me how much of what I earn belongs to you - and why?

Prior to capitalism, the way people amassed great wealth was by looting, plundering and enslaving their fellow man. Capitalism made it possible to become wealthy by serving your fellow man.

No matter how worthy the cause, it is robbery, theft, and injustice to confiscate the property of one person and give it to another to whom it does not belong.

If one person has a right to something he did not earn, of necessity it requires that another person not have a right to something that he did earn.

Democracy and liberty are not the same. Democracy is little more than mob rule, while liberty refers to the sovereignty of the individual.

The Founders knew that a democracy would lead to some kind of tyranny. The term democracy appears in none of our Founding documents. Their vision for us was a Republic and limited government.

In a free society, government has the responsibility of protecting us from others, but not from ourselves.

Always be suspicious of those who pretend to know it all, claim their way is the best way and are willing to force their way on the rest of us.

I prefer a thief to a Congressman. A thief will take your money and be on his way, but a Congressman will stand there and bore you with the reasons why he took it.

Most of the great problems we face are caused by politicians creating solutions to problems they created in the first place.

New Yorkers, I figured, just pretended to be unfriendly.

PARENTHOOD is journey of being driven to the BRINK of INSANITY and BACK...Like a YO YO!!

Every woman is as bitter as gall. But she has two good moments: one in bed, the other at her death.

My little scam in April '85 went like this: Give me $50,000; here's some names of some people we've recruited.

No one questions the validity, the urgency, the essentiality of the Voting Rights Act.

Love and laughter hold us together.

Composers often think in terms of music and not of an instrument itself.

Then she offers him a slim but sincere smile, and he reluctantly returns it. It doesn't bridge the gap between them, but at least it marks the spot where the bridge might be built.

What Tunisia urgently needs, is freedom and the building of a real democracy.

The time is right to mix sentences with dirt and the sun with punctuation and rain with verbs.