The president has borrowed more money to spend to less effect than anybody on the planet.

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.

If the weight comes from bacon you can so deduct it off the scale total to get your true weight. #science

Compassion is the way you live your life every day.

The smell of pine needles, spruce and the smell of a Christmas tree - those to me, are the scents of the holidays.

We will not permit the triumph of violence in the affairs of men; free people will set the course of history.

I didn’t want to tell the story of myself, but someone I called myself. If you read yourself as fiction, it’s rather more liberating than reading yourself as fact.

Drinking goes with everything, there's always an excuse to drink. We sell beer and liquor 24/7/365 everywhere, you can buy a 5th of vodka at 3am on Easter Sunday if you want.

What greater tragedy can there be than to lose hope forever and drift in the cold darkness of hopelessness?

A computer can tell you down to the dime what you've sold, but it can never tell you how much you could have sold.

Camping is something I've done all my life.

There is nothing I'm any more passionate than empowering the next generation.