I rarely meet a politician that I don't like personally. They are generally well endowed with charm. Therein lies the danger..

Man developed in Africa. He has not continued to do so there..

Of course, the humans in Haiti have hope. They hope to leave..

Oh, God. The Sixties are coming back. Well I've got a 12-gauge double-barreled duck gun chambered for three-inch Magnum shells. And - speaking str….

We are a nation that worships speed and power. And for good reason. Without power we would still be part of England and everybody would be out of wor….

Any trade that is voluntarily made is mutually beneficial, by definition, and, indeed, is balanced, by definition..

Political systems must love poverty-they produce so much of it. Poor people make easier targets for a demagogue. No Mao or even Jiang Zemin is likely….

Daniel Patrick Moynihan is the archetypal extremely smart person who went into politics anyway instead of doing something worthwhile for his country..

People will tell you anything but what they do is always the truth..

There is no virtue in compulsory government charity, and there is no virtue in advocating it. A politician who portrays himself as "caring" and "sens….

Most of the people who have grabbed hold of climate change and greenhouse gases, pollution, oil dependency - they have another motive, and their moti….

Hubris is one of the great renewable resources..

Cats possess so many of the same qualities as some poeple that it is often hard to tell the people and the cats apart..

[Al] Franken is left-wing and funny. He's a pretty good political humorist..

I can understand why mankind hasn't given up war. During a war you get to drive tanks through the sides of buildings and shoot foreigners - two thing….

Smoking is very bad for you and should only be done because it looks so good. People who don't smoke have a terrible time finding something polite to….

I had really not been out of the United States much, except for Mexico. I thought, "Jesus Christ, this [Russia] is like a whole new world." Instead o….

If I bring anything to the table, it's the fact that not everybody realizes they're funny. So I just point a finger..

There are artists with palettes and easels selling the kind of modern art that Soviet art critics used to critique with bulldozers. Judging by the pa….

Your money does not cause my poverty. Refusal to believe this is at the bottom of most bad economic thinking..

Social Security is a government program with a constituency made up of the old, the near old and those who hope or fear to grow old. After 215 years ….