These were people who believed everything about the Soviet Union was perfect, but they were bringing their own toilet paper.

There's no such thing as a trade deficit.

The question nowadays is not what makes government work. The question is how do we make it stop.

I have a 10 year old at home, and she is always saying, 'That's not fair.' When she says that, I say, "Honey, you're cute; that's not fair. Your family is pretty well off; that's not fair. You were born in America; that's not fair. Honey, you had better pray to God that things don't start getting fair for you.

Every generation finds the drug it needs.

Predicting innovation is something of a self-canceling exercise: the most probable innovations are probably the least innovative.

Everything that's fun in life is dangerous. Horse races, for instance, are very dangerous. But attempt to design a safe horse and the result is a cow ... It is impossible to be alive and safe.