To say the Constitution is living is to say that it's dead.

It is hard to imagine a more stupid or more dangerous way of making decisions than by putting those decisions in the hands of people who pay no price for being wrong.

When you want to help people, you tell them the truth. When you want to help yourself, you tell them what they want to hear.

Racism is not dead, but it is on life support -- kept alive by politicians, race hustlers and people who get a sense of superiority by denouncing others as 'racists'

It takes considerable knowledge just to realize the extent of your own ignorance.

Any politician who can be elected only by turning Americans against other Americans is too dangerous to be elected.

The next time some academics tell you how important diversity is, ask how many Republicans there are in their sociology department.

Liberals seem to assume that, if you don't believe in their particular political solutions, then you don't really care about the people that they claim to want to help.

I have never understood why it is "greed" to want to keep the money you have earned but not greed to want to take somebody else's money.

Capitalism knows only one color: that color is green; all else is necessarily subservient to it, hence, race, gender and ethnicity cannot be considered within it.

The first lesson of economics is scarcity: there is never enough of anything to fully satisfy all those who want it. The first lesson of politics is to disregard the first lesson of economics.

I'm going to spend it all. . . why leave it to our errors?

You are not angry with people when you laugh at them. Humor teaches tolerance.

It seemed like we were losing every night for a different reason. Now we're winning a different way every time. It's a great feeling.

Having walked on the Moon, I know something about what we need to explore, really explore, in space.

Work with the raw material you have, namely you, and never let up.

I enjoy going to Palm Springs when I'm living in Los Angeles.

When I was very little, we would get letters from China, in Chinese, and they' be censored. We were a very insular little family.

Men like the kings and the queens because men are weak! No strong man accepts any king or queen!

I cleaned the attic with the wife the other day. Now I can't get the cobwebs out of her hair.

Oh, my Lolita, I have only words to play with!