Everyone in America seems to be joining an organization of some kind, and in Congress one hears from them all.

We must have government, but we must watch them like a hawk.

Never feel self-pity, the most destructive emotion there is. How awful to caught up in the terrible squirrel cage of self.

The only people who would be in government are those who care more about people than they do about power.

If there is one thing the past years have taught us, it is the importance of a keen and high sense of honor in those who handle our governmental affairs.

Influence comes out of the work that you've done and the things you've stood for. Influence and power shouldn't be given to just anybody who wants them.

When you're old, everything you do is sort of a miracle.

Economics is not a science, in the sense that a policy can be repeatedly applied under similar conditions and will repeatedly produce similar results.

Party organization matters. When the door of a smoke-filled room is closed, there's hardly ever a woman inside.

The business of government is justice.

I have come to believe that one thing people cannot bear is a sense of injustice. Poverty, cold, even hunger are more bearable than injustice.

Any writer overwhelmingly honest about pleasing himself is almost sure to please others.

All human beings, as we meet them, are commingled out of good and evil.

All progress is based upon a universal innate desire on the part of every living organism to live beyond its income.

You hear the best stories from ordinary people. That sense of immediacy is more real to me than a lot of writerly, literary-type crafted stories. I want that immediacy when I read a novel.

We must trust God with what we can't control.

African-American women account for 67 percent of all newly diagnosed female AIDS cases.

All these little heifers who can't sing are called ‘divas’.

Our founders did not oust George III in order for us to crown Richard I.

I'm the kind of person that wants to analyze and I think having a background in, strangely enough, in like literature and languages, I'm always analyzing things.

Good fortune is what happens when opportunity meets with planning.