Welfare culture is bad not just because, as in Europe, it's bankrupting the state, but because it enfeebles the citizenry, it erodes self-reliance and resourcefulness.

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.

Thanksgiving is a season that is very much in accord with the themes and teachings of Jesus Christ.

But I dare not think too far into the future on the risk that I'll miss the present.

I like actors who are themselves. I know in America you like actors who change their nose or wear a lot of wigs, and they like to take pretty girls and make them super ugly.

One lifetime is not enough to live

I mean, I don't really pay too much attention publicly to what people think.

We are doomed to coexist.

I've come to learn there is a virtuous cycle to transparency and a very vicious cycle of obfuscation.

As for his secret to staying married: "My wife tells me that if I ever decide to leave, she is coming with me."

Discoveries cannot be planned, they pop up, like Puck, in unexpected corners

The unforgivable sin of Hitler's Germany was to develop a new economic system by which the international bankers were deprived of their profits.