In a dying civilization, political prestige is the reward not of the shrewdest diagnostician, but of the man with the best bedside manner.

Ministers who are working 16 hours a day don t make news Politicians who say stupid things do What are we incentivising our leaders to do?

Homosexuality, to the limited extent it was discussed in our church, was little more than a political football, a quick test of orthodoxy.

Capitalism is the astounding belief that the most wickedest of men will do the most wickedest of things for the greatest good of everyone.

I have no doubt that the nation has suffered more from undue secrecy than from undue disclosure. The government takes good care of itself.

[Government]is cancerous in head and limbs;only its belly is sound, and the laws it excretes are the most strightforward shit in the world.

As I’m fond of saying, if you want to find utopia, take a sharp right on money and a sharp left on sex and it’s straight ahead.

Liberty should be understood as freedom from the government, specifically, freedom from the initiation of physical force by the government.

They were Republicans, Nixon Republicans, and so didn't subscribe to the notion that laws are supposed to apply to all people equally.

If people call me Christian, not from the standpoint of religion but from the standpoint of social vision, I declare that I am a Christian.

We are what we are. Nothing more, nothing less. There is good and evil among every kind of people. It's the evil among us who rule now.

I’m tired, and I just want to take a nap. But I want some good sleep, so does anybody know where I can go take in a political speech?

He had a ten-gallon hat that hid a twenty-gallon fish tank inside his translucent forehead. He had fish for brains, as do most politicians.

I am completely opposed to the British National Party; I couldn't possibly support people who find fluorescent yellow flyers appealing.

Our freedom of mobility has helped keep this nation free. We are eagles, not herds of cattle. Eagles are much harder to corral with fences.