How long do politicians have to keep on promising heaven and delivering hell before people catch on and stop getting swept away by rhetoric?

A friend from India told me that a countryman of his said: "I want to go to America. I want to see a country where poor people are fat."

In this era of political correctness, some people seem unaware that being squeamish about words can mean being blind to realities.

Whenever people talk glibly of a need to achieve educational "excellence," I think of what an improvement it would be if our public schools could just achieve mediocrity.

When your response to everything that is wrong with the world is to say, 'there ought to be a law,' you are saying that you hold freedom very cheap.

Envy is always referred to by its political alias, 'social justice.

High tax rates that people don't actually pay do not bring the government as much revenue as lower tax rates that they do pay.