We Americans live in a nation where the medical-care system is second to none in the world, unless you count maybe 25 or 30 little scuzzball countries like Scotland that we could vaporize in seconds if we felt like it.

Ask not what you can do for your country. Ask what's for lunch.

It has always been the prerogative of children and half-wits to point out that the emperor has no clothes. But the half-wit remains a half-wit, and the emperor remains an emperor.

Politics, n. Strife of interests masquerading as a contest of principles.

The only winner in the War of 1812 was Tchaikovsky.

Communism doesn't work because people like to own stuff.