A friend of mine was asked to a costume ball a short time ago. He slapped some egg on his face and went as a liberal economist.

Because you won't get gun control by disarming law abiding citizens. There's only one way to get real gun control: Disarm the thugs and the criminals, lock them up, and if you don't actually throw away the key, at least lose it for a long time.

Welfare's purpose should be to eliminate, as far as possible, the need for its own existence.

One picture is worth 1,000 denials.

I'm proud of having been one of the first to recognize that states and the federal government have a duty to protect our natural resources from the damaging effects of pollution that can accompany industrial development.

I've never been able to understand why a Republican contributor is a 'fat cat' and a Democratic contributor of the same amount of money is a 'public-spirited philanthropist'.

That's the nice thing about this job. You get to quote yourself shamelessly. If you don't, Larry Speakes will.