Once you give an NFL player permission to have thoughts, you invite all kinds of mischief.

I was a bit of a troubled kid growing up, let's put it that way. I didn't take pleasure in hard work.

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.

I think that if you're a thinking person you should always be trying to learn something new.

You know what an effective deterrent to crime is? Jail! And do you know what kind of criminal penalty actually makes people think twice about committing crimes the next time? The kind that actually comes out of some individual's pocket, not fines that come out of the corporate kitty.

Private equity firms aren't necessarily evil by definition. There are many stories of successful turnarounds fueled by private equity, often involving multiple floundering businesses that are rolled into a single entity, eliminating duplicative overhead.