Each time there is a conflict between Israel and Gaza, accusations fly over who started it, each side blaming the other.
Every time some spoiled European soccer millionaire complains about the blaring vuvuzelas, I want them to blare louder.
Most people I know that have work that is very meaningful to them pay the price of having to work all the time.
You have to let the market reward effort and skill. But a system in which inequality of incomes constantly increases over time is worrisome.
The problem with wanting the tax code to be 'simpler, fairer,' and 'pro-growth' is that it's impossible to achieve all three at the same time.
The Green Fairy: I'm the Green Fairy... The hills are alive, with The Sound Of Music.
We need earmark reform, and when I'm President, I will go line by line to make sure that we are not spending money unwisely.
Presidential money is almost like the housing bubble. It's growing at such an astronomical rate, you think it can't get any bigger.
Television was supposed to be a national park. Instead it has become a money machine. It's a commodity now, just like pork bellies.
By pouring money and goods into devastated regions, foreign aid workers sometimes compound the disruption and debauch the survivors.
I would also say Barack Obama has spent much, much, much, much more money than the Republicans.
I'm very careful with money - both my parents were very sensible with it and I grew up to become an obsessive saver.
Obama, in pursuit of power, has been as greedy and irresponsible as any Wall Street tycoon in pursuit of money.
It's human nature to start taking things for granted again when danger isn't banging loudly on the door.
Breathless, we flung us on a windy hill, Laughed in the sun, and kissed the lovely grass.
Whatever you are by nature, keep to it; never desert your line of talent. Be what nature intended you for, and you will succeed.
I grew up in this town, my poetry was born between the hill and the river, it took its voice from the rain, and like the timber, it steeped itself in the forests.
What makes a comedian has nothing to do with religion. Think of Red Skelton, Jimmy Durante, Jackie Gleason, who were all Catholics.
I believe that religion should be totally separated from the state. That's not the way it is today, not even in Sweden.
Religion, in any form, is always interesting to me because of how powerful it is. Not even the religion itself, but to the people that follow it... The effect that it has had on people's minds.
I've never had any religion. I'd prefer it if I did, really. Even as a boy I just couldn't make myself believe.
