Alexander Hamilton started the U.S. Treasury with nothing, and that was the closest our country has ever been to being even.

It isn't what we don't know that gives us trouble, it's what we know that ain't so.

The budget is like a mythical bean bag. Congress votes mythical beans into it, then reaches in and tries to pull real ones out.

There are two things I don't care how smart you are, you will never understand. One is an alienist's testimony, and the other is a railroad timetable.

People are getting smarter nowadays; they are letting lawyers, instead of their conscience, be their guide.

Nobody wants his cause near as bad as he wants to talk about his cause.

Now if there is one thing that we do worse than any other nation, it is try and manage somebody else's affairs.