The statists want to control the economy.

We don't need someone who can think. We need someone with enough digits to hold a pen.

I don't want to abolish government. I simply want to reduce it to the size where I can drag it into the bathroom and drown it in the bathtub.

We are trying to change the tones in the state capitals, and turn them toward bitter nastiness and partisanship.

My goal is to cut government in half in twenty-five years, to get it down to the size where we can drown it in the bathtub.

Obsessions turn people off.

We will make it so that a Democrat cannot govern as a Democrat.

This always confuses liberals, that conservatives like the military and don't like the bureaucracy. That's because the military has their guns pointed out and the bureaucracy has them pointed in.

I was an anti-communist before I was political in other ways.

The future of the Republican Party, all the different folks looking to lead the Republican Party at the national level in the future, recognize we should do immigration reform.

Being married is kind of like being a Ken-doll; you don't get to dress yourself anymore.

Having a spine is overrated. If everybody squealed and ran away, there'd be no more wars.

In Iraq, many of my female friends were architects and professionals with a lot of power during the 1980s while all the men were at war in Iran.

It's a grim business, this being funny. Every time you come up with a strong, satiric idea, the world tops it.

Jewels! It's my belief that when woman was made, jewels were invented only to make her the more mischievous.

I can't tell you how many times in the '90s I'd meet somebody, we'd be having a nice time, and they'd sigh and go, 'This is exactly like Before Sunrise.' And I'd have to get up and leave.

Have you ever noticed that it takes a textbook dozens of pages to say what normal people can cover fast? Example: What was the full impact of World War II? Clear-cut teenage answer: we won.

Some people, no matter where they look, they see themselves.

It is one of the glories of America that we move to higher levels of awareness.

I get and read an enormous number of first novels.

Efficient management without effective leadership is, as one individual phrased, it, "like straightening deck chairs on the Titanic".