Politeness and consideration for others is like investing pennies and getting dollars back.

One of the most pervasive political visions of our time is the vision of liberals as compassionate and conservatives as less caring.

Politics is the art of making your selfish desires seem like the national interest.

Stopping illegal immigration would mean that wages would have to rise to a level where Americans would want the jobs currently taken by illegal aliens.

The Congressional Budget Office has been embarrassed repeatedly by making projections based on the assumption that tax revenues and tax rates move in the same direction.

Welfare states on both sides of the Atlantic have discovered that largesse to losers does not reduce their hostility to society, but only increases it. Far from producing gratitude, generosity is seen as an admission of guilt, and the reparations as inadequate compensations for injustices - leading to worsening behavior by the recipients.

Too many people in Washington are full of themselves, among other things that they are full of.