Everybody wants to save the Earth; nobody wants to help Mom do the dishes.

I'm certainly not fearful.

Don't send funny greeting cards on birthdays or at Christmas. Save them for funerals when their cheery effect is needed.

The Constitution is an equally forthright piece of work and quite succinct ... giving the complete operating instructions for a nation of 250 million people. The manual for a Toyota Camry, which only seats five, is four times as long.

Freedom is not empowerment. Empowerment is what the Serbs have in Bosnia. Anybody can grab a gun and be empowered. It's not entitlement. An entitlement is what people on welfare get, and how free are they? It's not an endlessly expanding list of rights - the "right" to education, the "right" to food and housing. That's not freedom, that's dependency. Those aren't rights, those are the rations of slavery - hay and a barn for human cattle.

Every government is a parliament of whores. The trouble is, in a democracy, the whores are us.

I always thought there was some romance to that '30s leftist stuff, even though I'm a Republican.