A big chunk of Western civilization, consciously or otherwise, has given the impression that it's dying to surrender to somebody, anybody. Reasonably enough, Islam figures: Hey, why not us?

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.

Work hard and don’t manipulate God

Do you know the only thing that gives me pleasure? It's to see my dividends coming in.

Nothing is more natural to men in office, than to look with peculiar deference towards that authority to which they owe their official existence.

Every single fat comic uses his weight as a punchline. There is something sad about that.

People exaggerate the value of things they haven't got everybody worships truth and unselfishness because they have no experience with them

I have no desire to write anything for screen. That's a great talent.

We are vulnerable if we can be taken by a wave of emotion, invaded by an invidious impulse, roughed up by resentment, or engulfed by a surge of selfishness.

I read all the time. Sometimes I get asked if I've thought about writing a novel.

Melt all the guns, I thought, break the knives, burn the guillotines-and the malicious will still write letters that kill.

Now the dark air is like fire on my skin, And even the moonlight is blinding