The reason families need two incomes today is not to support themselves but to support the government.

Programs that pay farmers not to farm often devastate rural areas. The reductions hurt everyone from fertilizer companies to tractor salesmen.

Three groups spend other people's money: children, thieves, politicians. All three need supervision.

You cannot get ahead while you are getting even.

Hillary Clinton bothers me a lot. I realized the other day that her thoughts sound a lot like Karl Marx. She hangs around a lot of Marxists. All her friends are Marxists.

If I were in the President's place, I would not get a chance to resign. I would be lying in a pool of my own blood hearing Mrs. Armey, standing over me, saying, 'How do I reload this damn thing?'

Demagoguery beats data in making public policy.

The American Dream is not to own your own home, but to get your kids out of it.

The average family pays more in taxes than it spends on food, clothing, and shelter combined.

Politics will sooner or later make fools of everybody.

The Democratic Party has pretty much abandoned all the things that they cherish.

She understood that Simon was a disappointed man if he needed, at ths age, to tell her he had pitied her for years.

Why had she imagined he was attractive? He was absolutely the biggest, most complete and utter jackass she'd ever had the bad fortune to meet.

Life is the first gift, love is the second, and understanding the third.

if ask you who you are ,should count your skills.

My continuing passion is to part a curtain, that invisible veil of indifference that falls between us and that blinds us to each other's presence, each other's wonder, each other's human plight.

No nostalgia runs deeper than that for something one has never known and now cannot obtain.

Some people are very lucky, and have the story in their heads. I've never storyboarded anything. I like the idea of chance. What makes God laugh is people who make plans.

After every movie, you get offered the role that you just did in the last movie.

When I started in the late 1950s, every film I made - no matter how low the budget - got a theatrical release. Today, less that 20-percent of our films get a theatrical release.

On daytime they continue to revisit a lot of the same stuff while nighttime does move on and show development.