Reporters thrive on the world's misfortune. For this reason they often take an indecent pleasure in events that dismay the rest of humanity.

The world is governed by opinion.

The beef industry has contributed to more American deaths than all the wars of this century, all natural disasters, and all automobile accidents combined.

A conservative is one who admires radicals centuries after they're dead.

The most important political office is that of the private citizen.

In politics it is necessary either to betray one's country or the electorate. I prefer to betray the electorate.

I do have a political agenda. It's to have as few regulations as possible.

The thing I enjoyed most were visits from children. They did not want public office.

Justice, sir, is the great interest of man on earth. It is the ligament which holds civilized beings and civilized nations together.

It is a measure of the framers' fear that a passing majority might find it expedient to compromise 4th Amendment values that these values were embodied in the Constitution itself.