Positive rights are the right to shelter, the right to education, the right to health care, the right to a living wage. These things are - these are, I would call them, more properly, political rights rather than positive rights. And they are extremely tricky, because now we are dealing with things that are zero sum.

Man developed in Africa. He has not continued to do so there.

I've always figured that if God wanted us to go to church a lot He'd have given us bigger behinds to sit on and smaller heads to think with.

Gossip is what you say about the objects of flattery when they aren't present.

Think about last time you were broke ... now how well did it go with spending your way out of it? Did that work?

Politicians are wonderful people as longa as they stay away from things they don't understand, such as working for a living.

Southern California is a nice place, if you could cut out the show-business cancer. It just keeps spreading.