“We had a choice between Democrats who couldn't learn from the past and Republicans who couldn't stop living in it...”

“Smoking crack is a way for people who couldn't afford college to study the works of Charles Darwin.”

“The Democrats are the party that says government will make you smarter, taller, richer, and remove the crabgrass on your lawn. The Republicans are the party that says government doesn't work and then they get elected and prove it.”

“The college idealists who fill the ranks of the environmental movement seem willing to do absolutely anything to save the biosphere, except take science courses and learn something about it.”

“A walk through an old graveyard shows our ancestors often had more dead children than we have live ones.”

“There is no virtue in compulsory government charity, and there is no virtue in advocating it. A politician who portrays himself as "caring" and "sensitive" because he wants to expand the government's charitable programs is merely saying that he's willing to try to do good with other people's money. Well, who isn't? And a voter who takes pride in supporting such programs is telling us that he'll do good with his own money—if a gun is held to his head.”

“There are no kinder or better people in the world than those who listen to you when you are 18.”