What begins as a Utopian vision, always - always - ends in bloodshed. Because you have to force a utopia on a free people. Free people want to pursue their own happiness, but a one-size-fits-all approach requires herding the free, against their will, into the state's idea of what's right. Then it's not utopia.

You should try to get fired once in a while. It's good for you.

I love it when the market reacts naturally to events. It's like a cat coughing up a fur ball.

We need an idiot middle ground, where we have to be honest and say, kids can be idiots and cops can be idiots.

I don't like the way my hair looks, so we're going to do the whole show over.

Whenever there's an act of terror, its guns, its Christians, it's republicans, but the FBI can't say Islamism because it's too politically incorrect. And nobody wants to lose their job, it comes from the top. I think they lack the manpower to do their jobs. It's not about changing the FBI; it's about changing the way they do business.

It's not enough to be right because he [Rick Perry] is right, you got to be persuasively right, got to be intellectually agile, and I think he can do it.