The No. 1 cause of preventable death for young black men is not auto accidents or accidental drowning, but homicide.

A woman who demands further gun control legislation is like a chicken who roots for Colonel Sanders.

Conservatives consider liberals well-intentioned, but misguided. Liberals consider conservatives not only wrong, but really, really bad people.

People value and spend their money more wisely when they acquire it by their own efforts - also known as work.

Lower taxes, less government spending on domestic programs and fewer regulations mean a better economy for everybody.

Welfare distorts behavior, makes one less personally responsible and reduces the role of private charity. This principle applies to corporate welfare.

Rent-control laws disproportionately benefit the non-poor because the elite pull strings, work the system and are better connected than the non-poor.

In the last 1,000 years, the Arabs have translated as many books as Spain translates in just one year.

The formula for achieving middle-class success is simple: Finish high school; don't have a child before the age of 20; and get married before having the child.

Studies show that children of divorced parents can have outcomes as positive as those coming from intact homes, provided the father remains financially supportive and active in his children's lives.

Only in Washington does a decrease in the proposed increase equal a spending cut.

The future must not belong to those who bully women. It must be shaped by girls who go to school and those who stand for a world where our daughters can live their dreams just like our sons.

I love painting and have a need to do it.

I have a feeling that any simple problem can be made arbitrarily difficult by imposing a suitably heavy administrative process around the development.

I don't see how anybody starts a novel without knowing how it's going to end. I usually make detailed outlines: how many chapters it will be and so forth.

Whether I'm shooting 10-under or 10-over I have to realize people have come a long way to see me play. I can't be back-handing putts.

It becomes a cannibalization of your pre-existing economy

Puritanism was a youthful, vigorous movement.

Suffering passes, but the fact of having suffered never passes.

There's nothing more rewarding than making a difference doing charity work or being able to be there for a friend.

The House of Lords is the British Outer Mongolia for retired politicians.