“Anarchism is not a romantic fable but the hard-headed realization, based on five thousand years of experience, that we cannot entrust the management of our lives to kings, priests, politicians, generals, and county commissioners.”— Edward Abbey
“It is one of the happy incidents of the federal system that a single courageous State may, if its citizens choose, serve as a laboratory; and try novel social and economic experiments without risk to the rest of the country.”— Louis D. Brandeis
“We need to get our fiscal house in order. We can't keep spending money we don't have.”— Haley Barbour
“The CIA is not now and has never been a central intelligence agency. It is the covert action arm of the President's foreign policy advisers.”— William Blum
“Unless democracy is to commit suicide, it must recognize that the child is the first interest of the state.”— Grace Abbott
“The notion that the government should have a monopoly on marriage is a relatively new idea.”— Bob Barr
“There's a need to reform appointments to the U.S. Supreme Court, and I'm not the only one who's noticed.”— Daniel Akaka
“The business of the Senate is not to pass laws, but to prevent bad laws from being passed.”— Howard H. Baker, Jr.