How vain it is to sit down to write when you have not stood up to live.
When I became 21, I decided that nobody learned anything about politics after the age of 21.
We don't need someone who can think. We need someone with enough digits to hold a pen.
All we have to do is replace Obama. . . . We are not auditioning for fearless leader. We don't need a president to tell us in what direction to go. We know what direction to go. We want the Ryan budget. . . . We just need a president to sign this stuff. We don't need someone to think it up or design it. The leadership now for the modern conservative movement for the next 20 years will be coming out of the House and the Senate.
I don't want to abolish government. I simply want to reduce it to the size where I can drag it into the bathroom and drown it in the bathtub.
We are trying to change the tones in the state capitals - and turn them toward bitter nastiness and partisanship.
My goal is to cut government in half in twenty-five years, to get it down to the size where we can drown it in the bathtub.
Look at how goddamn ugly the stars are.
Some questions will ruin you if you are denied the answer long enough.
Temperance is reason's girdle and passion's bridle, the strength of the soul and the foundation of virtue.
No road offers more mystery than that first one you mount from the town you were born to, the first time you mount it of your own volition, on a trip funded by your own coffee tin of wrinkled up dollars - bills you've saved and scrounged for, worked the all-night switchboard for, missed the Rolling Stones for, sold fragrant pot with smashed flowers going brown inside twist-tie plastic baggies for. In fact, to disembark from your origins, you've done everything you can think to scrounge money save selling your spanking young pussy.