Governing a large state is like boiling a small fish.
It doesnt matter what you do if you dont do what matters. If you do what matters it doesnt matter what you do.
Education is not merely neglected in many of our schools today, but is replaced to a great extent by ideological indoctrination.
Liberals seem to assume that, if you don't believe in their particular political solutions, then you don't really care about the people that they claim to want to help.
Helping those who have been struck by unforeseeable misfortunes is fundamentally different from making dependency a way of life.
Of all ignorance, the ignorance of the educated is the most dangerous. Not only are educated people likely to have more influence, they are the last people to suspect that they don't know what they are talking about when they go outside their narrow fields.
In this era of political correctness, some people seem unaware that being squeamish about words can mean being blind to realities.
If you lose sight of the smaller accomplishments , you end up with an imbalance in your life.
[Jack] Kerouac was writing fiction. What he did when he wrote about me. . . he made me out with Russian Countesses and Swiss accounts and other things I didn't have or didn't happen and so on.
I've always been about less government.
Anyone who knows me well must understand and be sympathetic to my genuine need to be my own greatest hero. It is not a flaw of character; it is a catastrophe.