The deficit crisis is real and must be addressed. But it cannot be solved on the backs of the weak and vulnerable.

Politics is not the art of the possible. It consists in choosing between the disastrous and the unpalatable.

Mankind, when left to themselves, are unfit for their own government.

I'm not saying Obama is right on everything. Of course not. He may be wrong on a number of things. But what I do know is that he behaves like a very, very sane man almost all the time.

Political nature abhors a vacuum, which is what often exists for a year or two in a party after it loses a presidential election.

One of the traditional methods of imposing statism or socialism has been by way of medicine....If you don't do this, one of these days you and I are going to spend our sunset years telling our children and our children's children what it was like in American when men were free.