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

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

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.

The reason families need two incomes today is not to support themselves but to support the government.

Fear is a desolate boneyard where our dreams go to desiccate in the hot sun.

No man is a complete ruler or dictator. He is only the mouthpiece for the wishes of his followers. As long as he expresses those wishes, he leads them.

The pen is mightier than the sword.

The desert shall rejoice, and blossom as the rose.

The new rule says that the FBI has the right to go to public places on the same terms and conditions as other members of the public for counterterrorism purposes.

Civilization impairs physical fitness.

There are some people who leave impressions not so lasting as the imprint of an oar upon the water.

Women can really be who they are. I'm about to say the F word, feminist. Often that word has such a negative connotation.

I am the world's worst good bridge player.

In the kingdom, the greater our responsibilities, the greater is our need to see ourselves as servants.