The U.S. cannot impose freedom, security, and unity in Iraq by force.

Essentially, when we run a deficit, we are borrowing money to buy things that are made overseas.

The U.S. must renounce any U.S. interest in constructing permanent U.S. military bases in Iraq.

About 75 percent of the crude oil marketed here is sold off the books, and they are doing trades that would be illegal if it was a regulated market, and of course they do not want to regulate it.

In crude oil trading, we have seen a 46 percent increase over 1 year in the margins there.

The U.S. cannot force Sunnis, Shias, and Kurds to make peace or to act for the common good. They have been in conflict for 1,400 years.

The crude oil market, unlike every other commodity in America, is virtually unregulated.

It was Osama bin Laden and al-Qaeda who attacked the U.S. on September 11, 2001, not Saddam Hussein and Iraq.

Even the majority of the Sunnis have grown tired of foreign terrorists operating in Iraq.

There is no free market in oil.

Insecurity is failing the American people miserably.

People walk in the door because they need you to take care of them -- to feed them or fix them.

It takes two to bribe.

Sometimes it's better to end something & try to start something new than imprison yourself in hoping for the impossible.

I think it would be fun to write about movies again.

So what is it with your mother that you haven't worked out yet?

In the '80s and '90s we started to have economic problems because society became more conservative. So we didn't have the wherewithal for expanding to other areas.

Dude, this is a stoner conversation and we're not even high

The need for bold and aggressive federal action to create jobs and restore confidence in our battered economy is clear.

I think we just knew that we had a movie when Rachel walked in the room.

You can't spell Citrus without UT