In a society governed passively by free markets and free elections, organized greed always defeats disorganized democracy.

There is a reason it used to be a crime in the Confederate states to teach a slave to read: Literacy is power.

I mean, people who say that the Tea Party isn't a grassroots movement, I think, are incorrect. I think in some respects, it is a grassroots movement.

The Congressional Record will forever show that [Obamacare] was passed in a romper room of overgrown children seemingly barely old enough to keep from peeing on themselves.

Contracting corruption has been around since the construction of the Appian Way.

In modern American politics, being the right kind of ignorant and entertainingly crazy is like having a big right hand in boxing; you've always got a puncher's chance.

In America, it takes about two weeks in the limelight for the whole country to think you've been around for years.