Foreign aid has been perfected so that it subsidizes corporate U.S. agriculture while preventing poor countries from developing profitable agriculture or feeding themselves.

Some flag waving is good, a lot of flag waving is tolerable, incessant flag waving is crazy and dangerous and easily manipulated by the war party to get people bubbling at the mouth in fear and rage.

Taken as a whole the mass media seldom rises to the level of deplorable trash, but it is also true that there is no mass audience in America for anything better.

Tens of billions ... are going into the pockets of tens of thousands of tax preparers who ... love complexity as much as the rest of us hate it

Americans will quarrel over how, who, or what to rescue or save, but the idea that the nation ought to be off doing it is challenged only by a few.

We are the people are parents warned us against.

But if not Kelso, then something else, because a free people must own the nation they live in.

The blame for the maddening complications of the federal tax system goes to the people with the most money

You may be biggest coward & looser of the world if you can't even ask for the things that you need the MOST & want it anyway.

No one has ever become poor by giving.

Who are we to think we deserve anything? What makes us so great? No one is "lucky" to have us. We are all full of it.

Some people are more affected by, I hate to use the word "success," but I don't know what else to say, but some people are more affected by that than others.

Your kid's ordinary. And so are you.

The dietician is going to get rid of that when he comes in. Although, first, we've got to get a dietician.

I guess maybe the only time I met George Wallace was when - at a boy scout meeting in Montgomery, and he met 10 or 15 of us from different areas. I'm not sure why I was there.

I love the phrase, 'Somebody's going to have a good day today, so it might as well be me.' I feel like you bring everything to the character, I hope.

When you've got God, you got a friend. And that friend is you.

If God treats you well by teaching you a disastrous lesson, you never forget it.