Bill Vaughan

"A citizen of America will cross the ocean to fight for democracy, but won't cross the street to vote in a national election. "

"A three-year-old child is a being who gets almost as much fun out of a fifty-six dollar set of swings as it does out of finding a small green worm. "

"Economists report that a college education adds many thousands of dollars to a man's lifetime income -- which he then spends sending his son to college. "

"If there is anything the nonconformist hates worse than a conformist, it's another nonconformist who doesn't conform to the prevailing standard of nonconformity. "

"Maybe the answer to Selective Service is to start everyone off in the army and draft them for civilian life as needed. "

"Money won't buy happiness, but it will pay the salaries of a large research staff to study the problem. "

"People learn something every day, and a lot of times it's that what they learned the day before was wrong. "

"Retirement, we understand, is great if you are busy, rich, and healthy. But then, under those conditions, work is great too. "

"Suburbia is where the developer bulldozes out the trees, then names the streets after them. "

"The Vice Presidency is sort of like the last cookie on the plate. Everybody insists he won't take it, but somebody always does. "

"We learn something every day, and lots of times it's that what we learned the day before was wrong. "