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If politics were a musical, it would be "Promises, Promises".

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How do you tell a Communist? Well, it’s someone who reads Marx and Lenin. And how do you tell an anti-Communist? It’s someone who understands Marx and...more

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Politics is not a bad profession. If you succeed there are many rewards, if you disgrace yourself you can always write a book.

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As government expands, liberty contracts.

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I have left orders to be awakened at any time during national emergency, even if I'm in a cabinet meeting.

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Why should we subsidize intellectual curiosity?

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Politics is supposed to be the second oldest profession. I have come to realize that it bears a very close resemblance to the first.

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Status quo, you know, is Latin for 'the mess we're in'.

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Government exists to protect us from each other. Where government has gone beyond its limits is in deciding to protect us from ourselves.

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A people free to choose will always choose peace.