Life does not ask what we want. It presents us with options

It doesn't matter how smart you are unless you stop and think.

The most basic question is not what is best, but who shall decide what is best.

We need laws written by people who have confronted life in the real world, not in the sheltered world of trust fund recipients of the insulated cocoon of academia.

The welfare state has always been judged by its good intentions, rather than its bad results.

How a man who holds the entire population of a country as his prisoners, and punishes the families of those who escape, can be admired by people who call themselves liberals is one of the many wonders of the human mind's ability to rationalize. Yet such is the case with Fidel Castro.

People who think that they are being 'exploited' should ask themselves whether they would be missed if they left, or whether people would say: 'Good riddance?'