[The Clinton health care initiative is] washed-over old-time bureaucratic liberalism, or centralized bureaucratic socialism.

One morning, just like 9/11, there's going to be a disaster. I have yet to see the United Nations do anything effective with either Iran or North Korea.

The idea that a congressman would be tainted by accepting money from private industry or private sources is essentially a socialist argument.

Perseverance is the hard work you do after you get tired of doing the hard work you already did.

All unemployment compensation should be tied to a job training requirement. Now the fact is, 99 weeks is an associate degree.

President Obama has created at least three jobs that I know of - Bob McDonnell, Chris Christie, and Scott Brown.

It may just be because I get homesick, but I have concluded Washington's cherry blossoms are just plain overrated.

I don't see how the party that says it's the party of the family is going to adopt an immigration policy which destroys families that have been here a quarter century.

I'm not a natural leader. I'm too intellectual; I'm too abstract; I think too much.

If Thomas Edison invented electric light today, Dan Rather would report it on CBS News as, 'Candle-making industry threatened'.

The most important social welfare program in America is a job.

People who call themselves supporters of Israel are actually supporters of its moral degeneration and ultimate destruction.

I sing about life. I am happy, but life is sad.

Democracy is constructed like an edifice, freedom by freedom, right by right, until it reaches its snapping point.

I don't think there's anything divisive about me.

I think going from laughing to crying to laughing to crying - making those quick turns adds years to your life.

It was so much fun playing simple American bluegrass. I got to meet Doc Watson.

At least have the decency in you / To leave me alone, when you freaks see me out / In the streets when I'm eating or feeding my daughter

Choose your mutations carefully...

I respect more the person who struggles with his faith than the person who is confident in his skepticism.

I tramp a perpetual journey.