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

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.

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.

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.

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

These quasi-faithful are growing in strength. They are the fundamentalists today, and they abound in all the religions.

It has been observed that all Americans need a frontier: pain was hers, and she was determined to push it out.

The greatest discovery of my generation is that man can alter his life simply by altering his attitude of mind.

A life coach does for the rest of your life what a personal trainer does for your health and fitness.

I love money because I've earned it.

A cautious creative is an oxymoron.

The French complain of everything, and always.

An awful lot of storytelling isn't really about making people understand - it's about making people care.

We proceed by doubt, by trial and error, by resisting the impulse to lunge after certainty.

The history of literature is the history of the human mind.