Decisions are always made with insufficient information. If you really knew what was going on, the decision would make itself.

Intelligence is like pornography. I can't define it, but I know if when I see it.

The term congressional hearing is an oxymoron. No congressional hearing is ever called to gather information. Rather, it is an exercise designed strictly for posturing, by people who have already made up their minds, looking for ammunition to support their positions.

If you want creative and successful children, resign yourself to jousting with rebels.

Talking with most people usually involves a search for truth. Talking with congressmen is strictly special effects.

Somewhere we taught ourselves that our opinions are more significant than the facts. And somehow we get our egos and our opinions and Truth all mixed up in a single package, so that when something does challenge one of the notions to which we subscribe, we react as if it challenges us.

It is not faith per se that creates the problem; it is conviction, the notion that one cannot be wrong, that opposing views are necessarily invalid and may even be intolerable.