Most Americans will let liberals and conservatives play their games because most Americans don't pay attention.

I still feel pangs of remorse over an insidious habit I've had since I was a teenager. About three times a week, I attend estate auctions and make insulting, low-ball bids for prized heirlooms until I'm asked to leave.

The way I've always governed my life as far as fiscal policy goes is I'm smart enough to know that I'm dumb about it, so I surround myself with smart people in much the same way a hole surrounds itself with a doughnut. I just pay things off. That's all I do.

Al Gore couldn't be more phony if he were a professional Al Gore impersonator

A recent conversation: Dubya: Look at the clock, time is racing! Cheney: That's the second hand, George.

There is a chalk outline slowly being drawn around common sense and most people can't identify the victim.

I find it shocking that anybody can be brought down in D.C. for gossip, ostensibly. I thought that was the coin of the realm there. That's like getting hit with lightning on a cloudless day.