People who think a tax boost will cure inflation are the same ones who believe another drink will cure a hangover.

I remain California-bound

Government's view of the economy could be summed up in a few short phrases: If it moves, tax it. If it keeps moving, regulate it. And if it stops moving, subsidize it.

Nations crumble from within when the citizenry asks of government those things which the citizenry might better provide for itself.

It ought to be remembered by all [that] the Games more than 2,000 years ago started as a means of bringing peace between the Greek city-states. And in those days, even if a war was going on, they called off the war in order to hold the Games. I wish we were still as civilized.

Are you better off today than you were four years ago?

One day we will spend our sunset years telling our children and our children's children what it was once like in the United States where men were free.