Dependency is the highest political good - at least for politicians. Since the 1930s, politicians have striven to leave no vote unbought.

America needs fewer laws, not more prisons.

Entire generations of Americans have come of age since the ancient time when the president's power was constrained by a duty of candor to the American people.

The vision that the founding fathers had of rule of law and equality before the law and no one above the law, that is a very viable vision, but instead of that, we have quasi mob rule.

Some politicians are aware of the Bill of Rights. It seems that the opposition party is far more likely to invoke it, to wave it in the air, this is what we saw from a lot of republicans during the Clinton Administration, and we are seeing the same from Democrats under Bush.

Throughout history, politicians have used other people's property to buy themselves power. That is the primary achievement of the welfare state.

It is absurd to expect governments to descend gradually, step-by-step into barbarism - as if there was a train schedule to political hell and people could get off at any stop along the way.