The difference between a policy and a crusade is that a policy is judged by its results, while a crusade is judged by how good it makes its crusaders feel.

Policies are judged by their consequences but crusades are judged by how good they make the crusaders feel.

Whatever we wish to achieve in the future, it must begin by knowing where we are in the present - not where we wish we were, or where we wish others to think we are, but where we are in fact.

It is a way to take people's wealth from them without having to openly raise taxes. Inflation is the most universal tax of all.

After political crusades for 'affordable housing' ended up ruining the housing market and much of the economy with it, many of the same politicians are now carrying on a crusade for 'affordable health care.' But what you can afford has absolutely nothing to do with the cost of producing anything. Refusing to pay those costs means that you are just not going to continue getting the same quantity and quality - regardless of what any politician says or how well he says it.

To say the Constitution is living is to say that it's dead.

When people get used to preferential treatment, equal treatment seems like discrimination.