The people themselves, not their government, should be trusted with spending their own money and making their own decisions.

Programs that pay farmers not to farm often devastate rural areas. The reductions hurt everyone from fertilizer companies to tractor salesmen.

Three groups spend other people's money: children, thieves, politicians. All three need supervision.

You cannot get ahead while you are getting even.

Hillary Clinton bothers me a lot. I realized the other day that her thoughts sound a lot like Karl Marx. She hangs around a lot of Marxists. All her friends are Marxists.

If I were in the President's place, I would not get a chance to resign. I would be lying in a pool of my own blood hearing Mrs. Armey, standing over me, saying, 'How do I reload this damn thing?'

Demagoguery beats data in making public policy.

The American Dream is not to own your own home, but to get your kids out of it.

The average family pays more in taxes than it spends on food, clothing, and shelter combined.

Politics will sooner or later make fools of everybody.

The Democratic Party has pretty much abandoned all the things that they cherish.

Come t'e' picciol fallo amaro morso! Dante. What grievous pain a little fault doth give thee!

Our reasons are not prophets When oft our fancies are.

Don't look for the devil outside, look inside and exorcise yourself

Right-wing extremism is all about patience. That is, until it makes its move, and then it is sudden and explosive.

The violence and obscenity are left unadulterated, as manifestation of the mystery and pain which ever accompanies the act of creation.

Good decisions can have bad short-term outcomes but be great for the business long-term.

Men are willing to admit that they are sinners, but not that they are sinning.

Love flows. Love doesn't know boundaries. The mind creates boundaries. The mind creates the boundary of separate me and you. The heart just keeps embracing and opening out.

I've never found kicks to the groin particularly funny, although recent work in the genre of the buddy movie suggests audience research must prove me wrong.

I wrote for nearly six hours. When I stopped, the dark mood, as if by magic, had folded its cloak and gone away.