You could probably prove, by judicious use of logarithms and congruent triangles, that real life is a lot more like soap opera than most people will admit.

Pigs get fat and hogs get slaughtered.

What stuns me most about contemporary politics is not even that the system has been so badly corrupted by money. It is that so few people get the connection between their lives and what the bozos do in Washington and our state capitols.

The thing is this: You got to have fun while you're fightin' for freedom, 'cause you don't always win.

Freedom fighters don't always win, but they're always right.

And the funny thing is, I've always been an optimist - it's practically a congenital disorder with me.

The first rule of holes: When you're in one stop digging.