The fact that so many successful politicians are such shameless liars is not only a reflection on them, it is also a reflection on us. When the people want the impossible, only liars can satisfy.

What is ominous is the ease with which some people go from saying that they don't like something to saying that the government should forbid it. When you go down that road, don't expect freedom to survive very long.

The welfare state is the oldest con game in the world. First you take people's money away quietly and then you give some of it back to them flamboyantly.

I am so old that I can remember when liberals were liberal - instead of being intolerant of anything and anybody that is not politically correct.

You will never understand bureaucracies until you understand that for bureaucrats procedure is everything and outcomes are nothing.