For too many, the dream of economic mobility has been replaced with a nightmare of economic stagnation.

People expect Byzantine, Machiavellian logic from politicians. But the truth is simple. Trial lawyers learn a good rule: 'Don't decide what you don't have to decide.' That's not evasion, it's wisdom.

You want calamities? What about the Ice Age? God made this world, but didn't complete it.

There are only two rules for being successful. One, figure out exactly what you want to do, and two, do it.

For me to make lasagna would be a desecration of a great Italian dish. . . . I don't mess with sacred things.

The Republicans believe that the wagon train will not make it to the frontier unless some of the old, some of the young, some of the weak are left behind.

There are few things more amusing in the world of politics than watching moderate Republicans charging to the right in pursuit of greater glory.

The mugger who is arrested is back on the street before the police officer, but the person mugged may not be back on the street for a long time, if ever.

I talk and talk and talk, and I haven't taught people in 50 years what my father taught by example in one week.

Every time I've done something that doesn't feel right, it's ended up not being right.

The American people need no course in philosophy or political science or church history to know that God should not be made into a celestial party chairman.

Clary, " he said. "You're Clary. You're my best friend.

Authority could derive from passion, not pieces of paper.

For a modern woman it is important to be supported and that there is equality in every aspect, and that it's not two halves that make a whole - it's two wholes that make a whole.

I find it very easy playing Bond. I think he's hilarious. He gets himself into some extraordinarily funny situations.

The age does not believe in great men, because it does not possess any.

I never made a mistake in grammar but one in my life and as soon as I done it I seen it.

The sin of respectable people reveals itself in flight from responsibility.

Most people affirm pleasure to be the good, but the finer sort of wits say it is knowledge.

Optimism is a muscle that gets stronger with use.

The Autumn is old; The sere leaves are flying; He hath gather'd up gold, And now he is dying;- Old age, begin sighing!