Clinton and Obama practice this politics known quaintly as the Richard Speck strategy: if you cannot take on everyone in the room at once, take them out of the room one at a time.

Obsessions turn people off.

Being married is kind of like being a Ken-doll; you don't get to dress yourself anymore.

Every time you cut programs, you take away a person who has a vested interest in high taxes and you put him on the tax rolls and make him a taxpayer. A farmer on subsidies is part welfare bum, whereas a free-market farmer is a small businessman with a gun.

My goal is to cut government in half in twenty-five years, to get it down to the size where we can drown it in the bathtub.

The statists want to control the economy.

We want to reduce the size of government in half as a percentage of GNP over the next 25 years. We want to reduce the number of people depending on government so there is more autonomy and more free citizens.

Our goal is to shrink government to the size where we can drown it in a bathtub.