Fame is worth less than service.

With demands for special education or standardized test prep being shouted in their ears, public schools can't always hear a parent when he says: 'I want my child to be able to write contracts in Spanish,' or, 'I want my child to shake hands firmly,' or, 'I want my child to study statistics and accounting, not calculus.

Disillusionment can come as fast as a gust, but building faith that the government won't inflate again is like building a new sailboat, a project of years.

In a way, Calvin Coolidge is better than Reagan. His tax rates were lower, and he cut budgets.

Right now we're concerned about budget. Right now we're concerned about the prospect of interest rate rise. We're concerned about government corruption, government handing out deals to specific groups. Coolidge fixed a problem like that. He came into a rough time and he, and Harding before him, fixed that by budgeting.

The difference between recession and depression is simple. Recession, goes the saying, is when you lose your job; depression is when I lose mine.

I'm not sure Roosevelt was quite a monster, he just did a poor job on the economics.