The break for me was the Medicare drug benefit in 2003. It's just grossly expensive, bad policy. After that, I no longer gave them the benefit of the doubt and started seeing the glass as half-empty.

People are increasingly concerned about unemployment, but Republicans have nothing to offer them.

Rick Perry's an idiot, and I don't think anyone would disagree with that.

I believe any decline would lock in a Fed increase with some certainty.

With all due respect to Speaker Hastert, trying to eliminate the IRS by adopting a national retail sales tax is a very dumb idea.

There's bound to be a recovery in [capital spending] sometime soon. We have had basically no capital investment for about year. At some point, machinery wears out, and you've got to replace it.

So I think we shouldn't be overly concerned about the decline in personal saving at this particular moment and time, but it's something we certainly need to keep an eye on.

Democrats will play the old Washington game of calling reductions in the rate of growth of spending for any program a 'cut'.

One to be a murderer. One to be a Martyr. One to be a Monarch. One to go Mad

our life has one chance in this world

Should is my all time least favorite word! It’s this sort of guilt inducing, finger wagging word that we use to beat up others and ourselves.

Gratitude is the heart of humility, and humility is the path to peace, love, and understanding.

That's how I grew up - it wasn't cool to not have a good system.

My remoteness from women's affairs could be seen from my surprise when I heard that needles had holes in them.

Parties are a cruel kind of fun.

What sought they thus afar? Bright jewels of the mine, The wealth of seas, the spoils of war? They sought a faith's pure shrine.

I don't write, I build a rhyme.

Neiman-Marcus is one thing, and the Dallas Cowboys are another.