As a libertarian I believe we should have a federal government simple and circumscribed enough to be run by an average, dull, normal American. With George W. Bush we have half the equation in place.

Veal is a very young beef and, like a very young girlfriend, it's cute but boring and expensive.

To really enjoy drugs you've got to want to get out of where you are. But there are some wheres that are harder to get out of than others. This is the drug-taking problem for adults. Teenage Weltscbmerz is easy to escape. But what drug will get a grown-up out of, for instance, debt?

Politicians are wonderful people as longa as they stay away from things they don't understand, such as working for a living.

I am a great admirer of women.

Distracting a politician from governing is like distracting a bear from eating your baby.

You can always reason with a German. You can always reason with a barnyard animal, too, for all the good it does.