General Motors, like the other two geezers of the Old Three, is a vast retirement home with a small money-losing auto subsidiary.

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.

People write for ego gratification, not money.

Funny is a good foil. Humor is illuminating, and it also gives you power.

The tax collector must love poor people, he's creating so many of them.

If I do continue to have the opportunity to work in Iran, that's very much what I'd prefer to do.

If you focus on another person you take their energy in your body completely.

When an idea is important to a person or culture it will find its way into imagery.

My mom and I are like sisters. We kind of grew up together. She always treated me as an adult. I never had curfew. She's a workaholic, like I am. We're not super family-oriented people, you know?

We want to understand what works here rather than what worked at any other organization.

No matter where you from, there's ghettos all over the place.

From the idea that the self is not given to us, I think there is only one practical consequence: we have to create ourselves as a work of art.