An efficient bureaucracy is the greatest threat to liberty.

Saying we should keep the two-party system simply because it is working is like saying the Titanic voyage was a success because a few people survived on life-rafts.

We do not need presidents who are bigger than the country, but rather ones who speak for it and support it.

As long as the differences and diversities of mankind exist, democracy must allow for compromise, for accommodation, and for the recognition of differences.

This is, I say, the time for all good men not to go to the aid of their party, but to come to the aid of their country.

Vote against anything introduced with a "re" in it, especially reforms, reorganizations, and recodifications. This usually means going back to something that failed once and is likely to do so again.

We don't declare war any more; we declare national defense.

It is dangerous for a national candidate to say things that people might remember.

Whatever is morally necessary must be made politically possible.

The only thing that saves us from bureaucracy is its inefficiency.

Anything said three times in Washington becomes a fact.

Express Yourself to Design your Life, you are here to "be you" not someone else...

[N]obody likes having salt rubbed into their wounds, even if it is the salt of the earth.

I strongly support the call to greatly expand our human intelligence capability to penetrate al Qaeda and gather critical intelligence to prevent terrorist attacks on our homeland.

I've never danced professionally as a ballet dancer, but all of my training is ballet, and I am a Fosse dancer.

They're working their way down. Next year, Todd Bridges gets the award. When I was a kid I wanted to be Eddie Murphy and now I'm a rip-off of Eddie Murphy.

I'm not, sexy, am I? God knows, I've tried

I was playing in other rock bands. Any of those bands didn't last long.

Nobody ever gets enough appreciation when they're behaving themselves, but there's no end to hearing about it when they're not.

His bark The daring mariner shall urge far o'er The Western wave, a smooth and level plain, Albeit the earth is fashioned like a wheel.

The only people who become disillusioned are people who have illusions.