Politicians and bureaucrats are no different from the rest of us. They will maximize their incentives just like everybody else.

How would the US be different today if people coming off the boat were greeted with a welfare check instead of a shovel?

Politics is a romantic search for the good and the true and the beautiful.

If politicians get money to spend and don't have to be responsible for taxation, then of course that will bias their attitude toward more spending as opposed to cutting back on spending.

Clearly, I am not an anarchist. Philosophically, I might be, but I think in practical terms.

America is perhaps excessively mobile in the sense that there is sometimes not enough stability in communities. Dynamism in the economy is not necessarily the "be all and end all".

Whenever a river reaches the ocean, it waits to go back..

Maybe the answer to Selective Service is to start everyone off in the army and draft them for civilian life as needed.

You can tell a workingman you like him, but he knows whether you are sincere or not. You can't make him believe you are interested in his welfare unless you are.

Every life is worthy and every life is capable of greatness. We have an obligation to make sure that opportunity for greatness is there.

I don't believe in government regulation of the software industry.

Sail on! sail on! sail on! and on!

L.A. is a vortex. The weather there tricks you into thinking you're on vacation, even when you're working fourteen hours a day.

It is putting a very high price on one's conjectures to have someone roasted alive on their account.

What we considered to be so much part of our everyday fashion vocabulary today, where we see all these designers restarting with these big houses, was just beginning then [in the 90th].

Val: Why do you go out there? Sandra: Because dead people give such good advice. Val: What advice do they give? Sandra: Just one word- live!