Washington, of course, aside from being one of the most mismanaged, crime-ridden cities on the planet, is a place where 535 federal legislators and about 38,000 lobbyists work at confiscating and redistributing the incomes of the American people.

A government that intended to protect the liberty of the people would not disarm them. A government planning the opposite most certainly and logically would disarm them. And so it has been in this century. Check out the history of Germany, the Soviet Union, Cuba, China and Cambodia.

The truth is that neither British nor American imperialism was or is idealistic. It has always been driven by economic or strategic interests.

[Y]ou cannot determine either the truth or the right or wrong of anything with a poll. You can only tabulate people's opinions.

The politicians in this world... have at their command weapons of mass destruction far more complex than their own thinking processes.

Reason and truth have rarely prevailed against demagoguery when the audience is too ignorant to tell the difference.

Government is inherently incompetent, and no matter what task it is assigned, it will do it in the most expensive and inefficient way possible.