One way to make sure crime doesn't pay would be to let the government run it.

The person who agrees with you 80 percent of the time is a friend and an ally - not a 20 percent traitor.

Republicans believe every day is the Fourth of July, but the democrats believe every day is April 15.

Some years ago, the federal government declared war on poverty, and poverty won.

It's hard, when you're up to your armpits in alligators, to remember you came here to drain the swamp.

We're entering our third century now, but it's wrong to judge our nation by its years. The calendar can't measure America because we were meant to be an endless experiment in freedom, with no limits to our reaches, no boundaries to what we can do, no end point to our hopes.

I thought the function of the government was to promote the general welfare, not to provide it.