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

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.

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.

At the heart of the deterioration of the fabric of the Negro society is the deterioration of the Negro family.

I willingly allow that money does not guarantee happiness

Have peace in your heart to find peace in the outer world.

One life - a little gleam of Time between two Eternities.

It doesn't matter what happened last night or the night - or tomorrow night. It's all about what you're doing with this audience right now.

I did not want to make the widow record. I still haven't made the widow record.

Glance is the enemy of vision.

I want to find the best opportunity to become the best in the world.

The question who ought to be boss is like who ought to be the tenor in the quartet? Obviously, the man who can sing tunor.

The feeling of a direct responsibility of the individual to God is almost wholly a creation of Protestantism.

Mark Twain said, The right word is to the nearly right word as lightning is to the lightning bug. Fill your book with lightning.