The main purpose of Social Security is to redistribute wealth, to make an increasingly large number of Americans dependent on government for their basic needs in their retirement years.

The key to accepting responsibility for your life is to accept the fact that your choices, every one of them, are leading you inexorably to either success or failure, however you define those terms.

A lot of people out there pay good lip service to the idea of personal freedom... right up to the point that someone tries to do something that they don't personally approve of.

What sort of a brain-dead idiot does it take to actually believe that gun laws will prevent criminals from obtaining and carrying guns?

One of the most crucial but hardest things to do as part of turning your life around is to get rid of all the negative people around you and replace them with people who encourage you instead.

There are people in Congress who aren't very bright. In fact, some of them are just plain brain-dead.

Screaming racism is the last refuge of leftist intellectuals who've completely lost their mojo.

No wonder politicians love government schools. Where do you think the dumb masses come from that can be so easily led and manipulated?

Free speech is meant to protect unpopular speech. Popular speech, by definition, needs no protection.

The principal purpose of the Democratic Party is to use the force of government to take property away from the people who earn it and give it to people who do not.

If I'm tapping anything, it's the frustration of people who have something to say at work or home or in some social setting and just can't do it. I do it for them. I don't take prisoners.

Think of Today, not Tomorrow. It’s time to be Happy, not live a Life of Sorrow. Find out those things that make you Glad & eliminate those that make you Sad.

The brevity of life is grace to walk on your own path.

The kindest thing a director can do is look with open eyes at everything.

On issues like Ukraine, on issues like Syria, we've had very significant differences [with Russia].

I'm right there with you, darlin'. Unless you step on a landmine, in which case I'm way back in the Operations Room.

Was this love? Because it hurt. It was like a bit of glass stuck somewhere important--his heart or his head, and it was throbbing.

Think globally, act locally": "Our salvation depends upon our ability to create a religion of nature.

If the crowd disperses, goes home, does not reassemble, we say the revolution is over.

Those who are religious or who have any beliefs have so much to choose from.

She nods. You're good for the ones you love. You want to be good for the ones you love, because you know that your time with them will end up being too short, no matter how long it is.