The industrial powerhouse of 1950 [Detroit] is now a crime-ridden wasteland with a functioning literacy rate equivalent to West African basket-cases.

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.

One proof of the inspiration of the Bible is that it has withstood so much poor preaching.

There’s never enough time for all the naps you want.

You have to understand where you are on the continuum. I feel I have to be the criminal mastermind on the mound if I want to win.

I remove my wedding rings and put them in the jewelry box. So many others have done this. I am not the only one. I am not the only one. But here, I am the only one.

We'd be better off if we only had the words 'I love you.'

For those who love... time is eternity.

Calamity is man's true touchstone.

I regard Duryodhana and his party as the baser impulses in man, and Arjuna and his party as the higher impulses.

We put our fingers in the eyes of those who doubt that Libya is ruled by anyone other than its people.