It's not that I place less value on Palestinian lives, but that Chairman Arafat and his chums in Hamas do.

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.

If music be the food of love, play on.

However close you get to others, you can never get inside them, even when you're inside them.

I'm going to hell. I'm pretty sure she's going to drag me there herself.

I think that 'Hangover II' is as funny as 'The Hangover I, ' honest to God, but I think that it's a little bit darker, and the stakes are a little bit higher.

Nobody ever told me what to read, or ever put poetry in my way

I've been fined probably more than any driver, and I've probably paid it out of my own pocket more than any driver.

This guy don't come to the ballpark to beat you. He comes to beat you bad. This (Jackie) Robinson, he plays a ton.

The State Department said the countries that are most stealing our best ideas also are our best allies.

Defeat should not be the source of discouragement, but a stimulus to keep plotting.

If you don't know your gift, you've got no lift.