Citizen participation is a device whereby public officials induce nonpublic individuals to act in a way the officials desire.

You are entitled to your opinion. But you are not entitled to your own facts.

To be Irish is to know that in the end the world will break your heart.

The single most exciting thing you encounter in government is competence, because it's so rare.

Somehow liberals have been unable to acquire from life what conservatives seem to be endowed with at birth: namely, a healthy skepticism of the powers of government agencies to do good.

Marriage orients men and women toward the future, asking them not just to commit to each other but to plan, to earn, to save, and to devote themselves to advancing their children's prospects.

The steady expansion of welfare programs can be taken as a measure of the steady disintegration of the Negro family structure over the past generation in the United States.

I'm a Democrat, and there are an important group of things only the government can do. But let us be clear that for most of the world, what they most need is less government.

If the newspapers of a country are filled with good news, the jails of that country will be filled with good people.

I can live with the robber barons, but how do you live with these pathological radicals?

The principal objective of American government at every level should be to see that children are born into intact families and that they remain so.

I really don’t think you should put your hand inside the manticore, dear. You don’t know where it’s been. —Enid Healy

It is hard to understand what love is!

The wisest word man reaches is the humblest he can speak.

You are not alone if you are lonely, When you feel afraid, you're not the only.

The body is my temple, asanas are my prayers.

A metallurgist is someone who can look at a platinum blonde and tell whether she's virgin material or a common ore.

I'd rather be working for a paycheck, than waiting to win the lottery. Besides, maybe this time it's different, I mean, I really think you like me.

Nothing has been spared in this world.

The saving power of the cross does not depend on faith being addded to it; its saving power is such that faith flows from it

The best use of good laws is to teach men to trample bad laws under their feet.