Far too many people have been swept into the post-9/11 system of fear that is the basis of all public policy these days.

It's not a gun control problem; it's a cultural control problem.

It is difficult, if not impossible, to argue that laws written in the 1970s are adequate for today's intelligence challenges.

Looking down the road, space exploration and the benefits it yields - in medicine and information technology - should not be overlooked.

It is high time for some congressional oversight backbone.

The Constitution never even mentions political parties, let alone the Republican and Democratic parties, yet all the election laws help to protect them from competition.

For decades, parents were told by so-called parenting 'experts' that offspring would be best raised on the belief each is special and entitled to all life has to offer.

History has shown that Big Government expands quickest in the immediate aftermath of a crisis - real or manufactured.

Whether it's a sitting president when I was an impeachment manager, or a Republican president who has taken liberties with adherence to the law, to me the standard is the same.

The Libertarian Party is a very mainstream party. It's a mainstream philosophy. It's of returning power from Washington to parents, to schools, to businesses in their communities.

The backlash against Big Government is an encouraging sign of a growing resistance to the mission creep of federal power.

Don't be afraid of challenges. Let them take you somewhere new.

I'm not an abstractionist. I'm not interested in the relationship of color or form or anything else. I'm interested only in expressing basic human emotions: tragedy, ecstasy, doom, and so on.

Most of us make assumptions about how someone will relate to us, and they are often unfounded.

Best timepass for idle person is to find another and gossip, without realising that there are superlative degrees of idle, idler, and idlest.

Higher income either indicates higher intelligence or lesser morals!

No, it's not dissatisfaction that inspires me to tinker with my songs, it's just restlessness.

To make Christianity a private affair while banishing all privacy is to relegate it to the rainbow's end or the Greek Calends.

What was God thinking when he created a guy this handsome? He wasn't a gift to womankind, he was a torture device.

Wordsmiths who serve established power...castrate the public imagination by subjecting language to a complexity which renders it private. Elitism is always their aim.

When we look back, the only things we cherish are those which in some way met our original want; the desire which formed in us in early youth, undirected, and of its own accord.