The killjoys initiated automobile crash standards so rigorous that we can't buy a car that hasn't been dropped from the top of a phone pole with our whole family strapped inside.

I come from Toledo, Ohio, a town that has been hurt badly by the shift of the automobile business towards Japan. And yet I remember how the car workers lived in the neighborhood that I grew up in. My father was a car salesman, and I remember how we lived. I remember how modestly we lived.

The whole idea of our government is this: If enough people get together and act in concert, they can take something and not pay for it.

Inside every Sancho Panza there's a Don Quixote struggling to get out.

Giving money and power to government is like giving whiskey and car keys to teenage boys.

I spent a lot of time behind the Iron Curtain, and their cars were abysmal.