The most basic of conservative principles is that if you reward bad behavior you get more of it.

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.

But the old man would not so, but slew his son, And half the seed of Europe, one by one.

To get back my youth I would do anything in the world, except take exercise, get up early, or be respectable.

I think when one has talent one finally breaks through; so don't pass up any opportunity to do some work.

Be sincere in your aim and you will find the support of Allaah surrounding you.

'Tis pleasant, sure, to see one's name in print. A book's a book, although there's nothing in 't.

Make stuff up. Anyone who ever did something new or interesting was making it up as they went along.

Focus on the play like it has a history and a life of its own.

The most delightful pleasures cloy without variety.

This is why Jessica Biel is a successful actress: because, despite the punchlines, you know how to tell a joke.