The purpose of the Senate is to keep 100 middle aged knuckleheads out of the private sector where they can do real harm.

The idea of a news broadcast once was to find someone with information and broadcast it. The idea now is to find someone with ignorance and spread it around.

Cleanliness becomes more important when godliness is unlikely.

I write because I like to make things and the only things I am good at making things with are words.

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

We're told cars cause pollution. A hundred years ago city streets were ankle deep in horse excrement. What kind of pollution do you want? Would you rather die of cancer at eighty or typhoid fever at nine?

A lot of things work better in a locomotive.