If you don't control the borders, it doesn't matter what immigration laws you have.

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

Economic policies need to be analyzed in terms of the incentives they create, rather than the hopes that inspired them.

One of the sad signs of our times is that we have demonized those who produce, subsidized those who refuse to produce, and canonized those who complain.

There is nothing so bad that politics cannot make it worse.

One of the painfully sobering realizations that come from reading history is the utter incompetence that is possible among leaders of whole nations and empires - and the blind faith that such leaders can nevertheless inspire among the people who are enthralled by their words or their posturing.

Since terrorists are pouring into Iraq in response to calls from international terrorist networks, the number of those who are killed is especially important, for these are people who will no longer be around to launch more attacks on American soil. Iraq has become a magnet for enemies of the United States, a place where they can be killed wholesale, thousands of miles away.