Alas! I do not believe that inspiration falls from heaven. think it rather the result of a profound indolence.
We don't have a prayer of defeating the Red Threat of our generation without a long boom of almost unprecedented duration.
Our morbidly obese federal government needs not just behavior modification but bariatric surgery.
If our nation goes over a financial Niagara, we won't have much strength and, eventually, we won't have peace. We are currently borrowing the entire defense budget from foreign investors. Within a few years, we will be spending more on interest payments than on national security. That is not, as our military friends say, a 'robust strategy. '
When they call the slightest spending reductions 'painful', we will say 'If government spending prevents pain, why are we suffering so much of it?' And 'If you want to experience real pain, just stay on the track we are on. '
Our main task is not to see that people of great wealth add to it, but that those without much money have a greater chance to earn some.
Our first thought is always for those on life's first rung, and how we might increase their chances of climbing.
[T]he cold warms me—after a different fashion from that of the kitchen stove.
The longer I stay clean, the better my beats are getting and the easier it is to zero in on one idea. Because I really want to, often, try to get an idea across. I can really get to the essence of a song better if I'm clean and I'm not waking up with a hangover.
For some reason, the Secret Service revealed this, that Sarah Palin's Secret Service code name is 'Denali. ' Turns out 'Denali' is an old Eskimo name that means 'Dan Quayle. '
The plural on anecdote is not evidence