The Tea Party claims to want small government.

One of the things that Teller and I are obsessed with, one of the reasons that we're in magic, is the difference between fantasy and reality.

Channeling is just bad ventriloquism. You use another voice, but people can see your lips moving.

You get no moral credit for forcing other people to do what you think is right.

Atheism is the absence of religion. We don’t really need atheism. We just need to get rid of religion.

If you are doing something for reward or punishment, you do not have morality.

In music, if you hit a wrong note, people forgive you. In magic when something goes wrong, the entire art is destroyed.

I think voting for the lesser of two evils in game theory always leads to more evil.

Much better than the feeling of having things is the feeling of having earned things.

Better to be uneducated than educated by your government.

Behaving morally because of a hope of reward or a fear of punishment is not morality.

We stand a better chance with aristocracy, whether hereditary or elective, than with monarchy.

We must promote solid traits such as work ethics, a dignified lifestyle, matching actions to rhetoric, performance rather than grandstanding.

As a man grows older it is harder and harder to frighten him.

We picked their cotton. We cooked their food. We nursed their babies. Now we can run their cities. We can run their states. We will run the country.

If you aren't sure which way to do something, do it both ways and see which works better.

I like the big ups. I'm into the big ups.

Conversation didn't seem necessary when I put the accordion down and swung some young lady around the floor.

Though how nature works is way beyond man's ability to comprehend, I have found that observing how nature works offers innumerable lessons that can help us understand the realities that affect us.

What I am for is justice for everyone, just like it says in the Constitution.

First a warning, musical; then the hour, irrevocable. The leaden circles dissolved in the air.