A politician's words reveal less about what he thinks about his subject than what he thinks about his audience.
Today more Americans are imprisoned for drug offenses than for property crimes
There is no reason to think today's levels of [drug] addiction are anywhere near the levels that would be reached under legalization.
Hillary Clinton hasn't created a job.
Americans are conservative. What they want to conserve is the New Deal.
On a throne at the center of a sense of humor sits a capacity for irony. All wit rests on a cheerful awareness of life's incongruities. It is a gentling awareness, and no politician without it should be allowed near power.