I'm sorry that government involves filling out a lot of forms. ... I'm sorry myself that we're not still on the frontier, where we could all tote guns, shoot anything that moved and spit to our hearts' content. But we live in a diverse and crowded country, and with civilization comes regulation.

Although it is true that only about 20 percent of American workers are in unions, that 20 percent sets the standards across the board in salaries, benefits and working conditions. If you are making a decent salary in a non-union company, you owe that to the unions. One thing that corporations do not do is give out money out of the goodness of their hearts.

There is no inverse relationship between freedom and security. Less of one does not lead to more of the other. People with no rights are not safe from terrorist attack.

Michael Jackson was a poor black boy who grew up to be a rich white woman

I dearly love the state of Texas, but I consider that a harmless perversion on my part, and discuss it only with consenting adults.

This is the man (Ronald Reagan) who proved that ignorance is no handicap to the presidency

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