The Democrats planned to fiddle while Rome burned. The Republicans were going to burn Rome, then fiddle.

The mystery of government is not how Washington works but how to make it stop.

[Wave of bestselling conservative commentators] it's kind of like reading The Power Of Positive Thinking, or any other advice or how-to book. All they do is reassure people of their basic opinions, and then they can continue to act like they've always acted. I'd say it's time to move on to something else, but I don't know what it would be.

Politics should be limited in scope to ware, protection of property, and the occasional precautionary beheading of a member of the ruling class.

During the mid-1980s dairy farmers decided there was too much cheap milk at the supermarket. So the government bought and slaughtered 1.6 million dairy cows. How come the government never does anything like this with lawyers?

Soldiers are not policemen, and it's very unfair, even for those soldiers who have some police training, to burden them with police duties. It's not what they're trained for, or equipped for.

I like Michael Moore, but I think of him more as a rabble-rouser.