So-called "progressives" actively wage war on progress. . . . Ultimately, progressives are at war with mass prosperity.

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.

Sometimes the righteous path doesn’t take you where you need to go!

I dress for women - and I undress for men.

Earnestly I must exert myself in order to return as much as I have received.

You'll never see any two good actors approach a role in the same way.

Stressful energy arises when you think some future moment is more important than the present moment, and the doing becomes only a means to an end.

Argh? Pathetic and inarticulate. Nice combination. Your mothers must be so proud.

Becoming enlightened doesn't mean everything works your way.

Always pull back-and see how silly we must look to God.

It just requires so much of you, and most of the time you feel dumb.

I always prefer to work intensively on something and then move on to something else. I prefer not to get stuck in something that takes five or six years of my life.