Those who can do. Those who can't form a supercommittee.

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.

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.

[We] assume that social progress is like technological progress: one cannot uninvent the internal combustion engine, so how could one uninvent liberty?

Fear cuts deeper than swords.

Three out of every one hundred people set goals. Even fewer write them down… You can be someone who does have goals—A Goal Getter!

When you go to home plate with a lot of confidence, you feel that you can hit any pitch.

I'm never saying never - I'm saying I'm not about to.

If you love someone set them free. If they come back, set them on fire.

My favorite mode of communication is in the world beyond: a dream, to see in a dream. My second favorite is correspondence.

It has been women who have breathed gentleness and care into the hard progress of humankind.

Shakespeare never had more than 6 lines together without a fault.

I think the most effective way to run a kitchen is to teach, not to just yell.

I must have a drink of breakfast.