Voters don't decide issues, they decide who will decide issues.

Today more Americans are imprisoned for drug offenses than for property crimes.

There may be more poetry than justice in poetic justice.

The nice part about being a pessimist is that you are constantly being either proven right or pleasantly surprised.

The future has a way of arriving unannounced.

Some parents say it is toy guns that make boys warlike. But give a boy a rubber duck and he will seize its neck like the butt of a pistol and shout "Bang!"

Politics should share one purpose with religion: the steady emancipation of the individual through the education of his passions.

Politicians fascinate because they constitute such a paradox; they are an elite that accomplishes mediocrity for the public good.

Pessimism is as American as apple pie - frozen apple pie with a slice of processed cheese.