To create a housing shortage in a huge country, heavily wooded, with a small population – ah, that’s proof of pure political genius.

People are like birds – from a distance, beautiful: from close up, those sharp beaks, those beady little eyes.

When people are against profits they’re against business; when they’re against business, they’re against employment; when they’re against employment, it’s not surprising that a large number of them are unemployed.

People who are brutally honest get more satisfaction out of the brutality than out of the honesty.

The man who is brutally honest enjoys the brutality quite as much as the honesty. Possibly more.

When a man tells me he's run out of steam in the sex department, I'll tell him, 'Count your blessings; you've escaped from the clutches of a cruel tyrant. Enjoy!

To create a housing shortage in a huge country, heavily wooded, with a small population -- ah, that's proof of pure political genius.

If you would have God hear you when you pray, you must hear him when he speaks.

Power is a drug on which the politicians are hooked. They buy it from the voters, using the voters' own money.

God punishes us mildly by ignoring our prayers and severely by answering them.