Rhetoric is no substitute for reality.

As for gun control advocates, I have no hope that any facts whatever will make the slightest dent in their thinking - or lack of thinking.

Old age at least gives me an excuse for not being very good at things.

What do you call it when someone steals money secretly? Theft. What do you call it when someone takes money by force? Robbery. What do you call it when a politician takes someone else's money and gives it to someone likely to vote for him? Social Justice.

The welfare state is not really about the welfare of the masses. It is about the egos of the elites

Disagree with someone on the right and he is likely to think you obtuse, wrong, foolish, a dope. Disagree with someone on the left, and he is more likely to think you selfish, a sell-out, insensitive, possibly evil.

It's amazing how much panic one honest man can spread among a multitude of hypocrites.

Balanced budget requirements seem more likely to produceaccounting ingenuity than genuinely balanced budgets.

In Washington, the clearer a statement is, the more certain it is to be followed by a 'clarification' when people realize what was said.

What is more frightening than any particular policy or ideology is the widespread habit of disregarding facts.