Democracy as a system has evolved into something that Thomas Jefferson didn't anticipate.

Richard Nixon was a criminally insane Monster - Bill Clinton is a black-hearted Swine of a friend.

Maybe it meant something. Maybe not, in the long run, but no explanation, no mix of words or music or memories can touch that sense of knowing that you were there and alive in that corner of time and the world. Whatever it meant.

I guess I'm just courtly until people get in my way. You'll find most Southerners are like that.

Buy the ticket, take the ride.

Children are like TV sets. When they start acting weird, whack them across the head with a big rubber basketball shoe.

Liberalism itself has failed, and for a pretty good reason. It has been too often compromised by the people who represented it.