California is now close to spending more on prisons than it does on higher education - surely the death warrant of a civilization.

Pigs get fat and hogs get slaughtered.

In Texas, we do not hold high expectations for the [governor's] office; it's mostly been occupied by crooks, dorks and the comatose.

I prefer someone who burns the flag and then wraps themselves up in the Constitution over someone who burns the Constitution and then wraps themselves up in the flag.

I've always found it easier to be funny than to be serious.

It is possible to read the history of this country as one long struggle to extend the liberties established in our Constitution to everyone in America.

We often seem to be swimming through such a miasma of sexual violence - in advertising, television programming, heavy metal, rap, films, and worst of all, in the home - that even First Amendment absolutists sometimes daydream about how nice it would be to have government-as-nanny just outlaw all this effluent.