A lot of things work better in a locomotive.

The U.S. tax code was written by A students. Every April 15 we have to pay somebody who got an A in accounting to keep ourselves from being sent to jail.

Most of the people who have grabbed hold of climate change and greenhouse gases, pollution, oil dependency - they have another motive, and their motive is to attain the appearance of virtue without having actually done anything virtuous.

We had a choice between Democrats who couldn't learn from the past and Republicans who couldn't stop living in it.

Most of us had never seen a sober redneck before, and we have the Reagan Landslide to testify that none of us ever wants to see one again. It was a horrifying apparition. And ever since Jimmy Carter, all of us rednecks have had to be very careful to be drunk rednecks lest we turn into some kind of awful creature with big buck teeth and a State Department full of human-rights yahoos.

Humor is a terrific tool for explaining things, especially when what you're explaining is frightening or dull and complicated.

Your money does not cause my poverty. Refusal to believe this is at the bottom of most bad economic thinking.