Never Refuse Wine. It is an odd but universally held opinion that anyone who doesn't drink must be an alcoholic.

When politics are used to allocate resources, the resources all end up being allocated to politics.

Sloths move at the speed of congressional debate but with greater deliberation and less noise.

Remember, FDA employees are serious about fear. We pay these people to panic about an iota of rodent hair in our chili, even when the recipe calls for it. FDA employees are first-class agonizers, world champions at losing sleep. When Meryl Streep got hysterical about Alar, they actually checked the apples instead of Meryl's head.

I rarely meet a politician that I don't like personally. They are generally well endowed with charm. Therein lies the danger.

When a private entity does not produce the desired results, it is (certain body parts excepted) done away with. But a public entity gets bigger.

A politician who commends himself as 'caring' and 'sensitive' because he wants to expand the government's charitable programs is merely saying that he's willing to do good with other peoples' money.