I don't see evidence of America being a poorer country than it was 20 years ago. I've seen impoverished devastation. I've seen places where things had been good and now they were very bad.

People who are wise, good, smart, skillful, or hardworking don't need politics, they have jobs.

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

The young are adept at learning, but even more adept at avoiding it.

How did an allegedly free people spawn a vast, rampant cuttlefish of dominion with its tentacles in every orifice of the body politic?

Passover is my idea of a perfect holiday. Dear God, when you're handing out plagues of darkness, locusts, hail, boils, flies, lice, frogs, and cattle murrain, and turning the Nile to blood, and smiting firstborn, give me a pass, and tell me when it's over.

You can't get something for nothing. Everybody remembers this except politicians.