Yes' is a far more potent word than 'no' in American politics. By adopting the positions which animate the political agenda for the other side, one can disarm them and leave them sputtering with nothing to say.

If you're going to be a sexual predator, be a Democrat.

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

Socialist countries throughout the world love to lower retirement ages to make people prematurely dependent on the government. But we should move in the opposite direction. In the long run, indexing retirement to life expectancy will yield enormous revenues to the system, far more than a one-shot increase in the age in the current legislative cycle.

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

The opposing party rarely causes so much angst as does one's own.

The White House will run itself while the president is away. That's why he has to be sure not to be away too much.