At least if we don't close down the Environmental Protection Agency, we at least put a snaffle bit on them and ride the pony down.

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

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

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.

Be willing to take a stand for the things you believe in, because no one else will stand there for you.

The moment is freedom. — I couldn’t live by a rigid schedule. I try to live freely from moment to moment, letting things happen and adjusting to them.

I listed to Tchaikovsky. He is both kitsch and profound. I love that lack of "Good taste."

A lot of people seem nice when you first meet them. Then later you find out that they are evil villains who plan to take over the world.

There is a fundamental difference, however, between asking to be permitted to keep a vegetative relative on costly machinery, and asking the taxpayers or society as a whole to pay for such machinery.

Being diabetic was not what I thought of as being normal, and I feared the stigma of having to take medicine and having people stick me with a needle.

Every day there comes a moment when a person lays his hands in his lap and all his busyness collapses like ashes. The work accomplished is, from the soul's point of view, entirely imaginary.

In exchange for power, influence, command and a place in history, a president gives up the bulk of his privacy.

Though a good deal is too strange to be believed, nothing is too strange to have happened.