An ignorant person with a bad character is like an unarmed robber, but a learned person with a blog is a robber fully armed

My father was not a political animal.

I know I have the mental capacity of a thousand bloggers, but because of that, my obligation to serve God is also that of a thousand bloggers

Do we really want a society in which the stigma of going on the dole has been erased?

I may have been the only candidate in America who failed to ride the wave of anti-establishment anger to victory.

I've often been accused of spending more time and energy criticizing my fellow Democrats than criticizing Republicans.

People have to eat and it's good to have a last-resort dole they can turn to.

I'm not anti-immigration.

Do Obama and Boxer realize they are on the wrong side of a tsunami of voter discontent with a government run by and for the public employee unions?

I don't have any particular beef with Barbara Boxer. My beef is with the official Democratic doctrine that anybody who reaches Boxer's position has to spout and has to endorse.

Ezra Klein gets under my skin. He seems to spout the party line.

The future is terrifying because it's full of stuff, not because it's empty.

Peacemakers not only live, they rule life.

You don't go from a Yugo to a Benz, back to a Yugo.

If you have a dream, chase it no matter what it takes.

I've kind of looked at my whole career as a spring training invite.

Happiness, at my age, is breathing

Gaiety is the most outstanding feature of the Soviet Union.

If you have a rigidly controlled economy, cut off from the rest of the world by infinite protection, nobody has any incentive to increase productivity and to bring new ideas.

A world government run by the UN will be like getting an old, purblind, half-deaf substitute teacher.

My father's biggest achievement was to motivate the South Korean people, to show them we could become prosperous if we worked hard. He taught me to love my country, and serve my country.