Government is like a baby. An alimentary canal with a big appetite at one end and no sense of responsibility at the other.

If adults want to take such chances (with marijuana) that is their business

Too often character assassination has replaced debate in principle here in Washington. Destroy someone's reputation, and you don't have to talk about what he stands for.

Freedom is the recognition that no single person, no single authority or government has a monopoly on the truth, but that every individual life is infinitely precious, that every one of us put in this world has been put there for a reason and has something to offer.

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

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.

Everyone is a liberal until they have something to conserve. Then they become a conservative.