... the top 10 percent of incomes pay 70 percent of the income taxes and cast about 25 percent of the vote.

Spontaneous combustion of grassroots politics is the future.

Anybody who thinks that getting a communication from a voter in your district is spam - that guy is pork. Roast pork unless he changes his point of view.

As Bob Dole found out, you can't keep a positive image while being your party's mouthpiece in Congress. That's why no legislative leader since James Madison has ever been elected president.

Democrats are not about to nominate anyone who backs the tax cut, and Americans are not going to elect anyone who favors a tax increase.

I didn't do what they said I did. I may have done enough so that I don't know if I can prove my innocence.

More and more, the Democrats are not merely inconsistent, wrong and/or misguided - they are the worst of all possible things you can be in Washington: irrelevant.

Take whatever position you want, but do take a position, because once you do, ample money awaits you on either side.

Washington is a mean town where human sacrifice has been raised to an art form.

The Darwinian adaptive trait of our time is the ability to figure out when we are being lied to on television.

Spin is overrated. It is strategy, not spin, that wins elections.

Once you choose hope, anything's possible.

Time should be seen and assessed in seconds, minutes, hours and days

i use pain to push me to greatness

It seems to me that really crazy people don't think they're crazy. Why would you?

Beauty is power a smile is its sword.

Curiosity is natural to the soul of man and interesting objects have a powerful influence on our affections.

Garden work consists much more in uprooting weeds than in planting seed. This applies also to teaching.

I am the space between my thighs, daylight shining through.

One's capacity for friendship, which can be developed, is basic to one's capacity for happiness.

ALWAYS PRACTICE the Art of Peace in a vibrant and joyful manner.