Barring extreme physical and mental disabilities, each and every one of us is where we are today — be it poor or wealthy, happy or sad, on the streets or in a condo, in a Mercedes or a rusted-out Pinto — because of the choices we have made during our lives. It's the choices we have made that put us where we are, not the choices others have made for us.

The Terrible Truth about Liberals (ed. 1998)