Far too many well-connected businesses are feeding at the federal trough. By addressing corporate welfare as well as other forms of welfare, we would add a whole new level of understanding to the notion of entitlement reform.

When a company is not being guided by the products they make and what the customers need, but by how they can manipulate the system - get regulations on their competitors, or mandates on using their products, or eliminating foreign competition - it just lowers the overall standard of living and hurts the disadvantaged the most.

From the beginning of time, business has cozied up to government and gotten restrictions on competition and subsidies and stuff.

The easy way to make money is to get special political privilege. From the beginning of time, business has cozied up to government and gotten restrictions on competition and subsidies and stuff.

War is the statesman's game, the priest's delight, the lawyer's jest, the hired assassin's trade.

You do have a modicum of peace of mind here, but it's as unsettled as any other place.

There's a lot of people desperately seeking to find 'the one,' and I think we should learn to be more at peace with ourselves.

We were taught fortitude by our parents, who had gone through the war. Being a child then was fun. We could go out and play in the street - there were few cars - and we felt very safe.