"In politics shared hatreds are almost always the basis of friendships."

"There is hardly a political question in the United States which does not sooner or later turn into a judicial one."

"America is a land of wonders, in which everything is in constant motion and every change seems an improvement.… No natural boundary seems to be set to the efforts of man; and in his eyes what is not yet done is only what he has not yet attempted to do."

"A democratic government is the only one in which those who vote for a tax can escape the obligation to pay it."

"The faith religious believers have in God is small compared to the faith people put in politicians, knowing how many times they have been disappointed in the past but still insisting that this time it will be different."

"Spending $1 for a brand new house would feel very, very good. Spending $1,000 for a ham sandwich would feel very, very bad. Spending $19,000 for a small family car would feel, well, more or less right. But as with physical pain, fiscal pain can depend on the individual, and everyone has a different threshold."

"Thankfully, I have my mom and a small group of close friends who are there for me 24/7 and whom I can trust and depend on."

"As more people rely on government programs, the harder it becomes to conduct the necessary reforms to preserve them to help our society's most vulnerable."