Our leadership class's real accomplishment is résumé padding.

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.

A person will complain about his problems, unwilling to receive solutions, while demanding attention trough a victimization, reflecting lack of responsibility.

She was a prism through with sadness could be divided into its infinite spectrum

To accept ourselves as we are means to value our imperfections as much as our perfections.

I've been very, very lucky in my career, in my life - from day one. When aspiring directors say, 'What's your advice?' first I say, 'Be born the son of a famous director. It's invaluable.'

To an adolescent, there is nothing in the world more embarrassing than a parent.

I'm 23 but I got a brain like I'm 32 man, switched the numbers around. Smart kid too, straight-A student, I was just a class clown.

I cannot be silent when facing these evils against women and children.

Think hard about it: I'm running out of demons. I'm running out of villians. I'm down to Castro and Kim Il Sung.

I read some books that were the right books for me. I read them and I didn't even notice turning the pages anymore. I thought, "That's what I want to do with my life."

Greatness knows itself.