Politics is the business of getting power and privilege without possessing merit. A politician is anyone who asks individuals to surrender part of their liberty - their power and privilege - to State, Masses, Mankind, Planet Earth, or whatever. This state, those masses, that mankind, and the planet will then be run by ... politicians.

I spent almost 25 years as a foreign correspondent, and the world's primary problem is poverty.

Intelligence collection has been given an additional bureaucracy to correct the problems created by too much bureaucracy in intelligence collection.

In the American political system, you're only allowed to have real ideas if it's absolutely guaranteed that you can't win an election

Nobody likes insurance companies, especially health insurance companies.

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

We're gonna be in a world of hurt if we don't get it fixed, because there's going to be billions of people out there - they're hungry, they're mad. One thing that they can get their hands on is guns.