That happy sense of purpose people have when standing up for a principle they haven't really been knocked down for yet.

Hunter S. Thompson and I are old friends, but what we do is so different. There are surface similarities that really have to do with us being frustrated poets.

In the American political system, you're only allowed to have real ideas if it's absolutely guaranteed that you can't win an election

The average IQ in America is—and this can be proven mathematically—average.

People love to be told what they know already. It's not so much that what they say is wrong, though Ann Coulter does seem to be completely crazy.

The whole idea of our government is this: If enough people get together and act in concert, they can take something and not pay for it.

Where self-interest is violently suppressed, it is replaced by a burdensome system of bureaucratic control which dries up the wellsprings of initiative and creativity.