I do not undertake to promote welfare, for I propose to extend freedom. My aim is not to pass laws but to repeal them.

Small men, seeking great wealth or power, have too often and too long turned even the highest levels of public service into mere personal opportunity.

While I am a great believer in the free enterprise system and all that it entails, I am an even stronger believer in the right of our people to live in a clean and pollution-free environment.

Hubert Humphrey talks so fast that listening to him is like trying to read Playboy magazine with your wife turning the pages.

A woman has a right to an abortion. That's a decision that's up to the pregnant woman, not up to the pope or some do-gooders or the Religious Right.

The Republicans have a positive talent for self-destruction.

By maintaining the separation of church and state, the United States has avoided the intolerance which has so divided the rest of the world with religious wars.

I've always said I have nothing against a woman doing anything a man can do as long as she gets home in time to cook dinner.

Where is the politician who has not promised to fight to the death for lower taxes- and who has not proceeded to vote for the very spending projects that make tax cuts impossible?

The fellow has absolutely no principles."Money and gall" is all he has.

I think any man in business would be foolish to fool around with his secretary. If it's somebody else's secretary, fine.

Well, they each seem to do one thing well enough, but fail to realize that literature depends on doing several things well at the same time.

War is the greatest evil Satan has invented to corrupt our hearts and souls. We should honor our soldiers, but we should never honor war.

A runner must run with dreams in his heart, not money in his pocket.

Who's my hero? That's a great question... Well, I think my dad is my hero, because he's someone I look up to every day.

We are entertainers. We have to give our audience a good time. If my name serves that purpose, if that brings a smile on your face, then I think it is good and my job has been done.

I don't use machines - animals don't use machines.

If my lyrics mean something special to someone... that's the most important thing to me.

If you do enough things, you're going to eventually narrow it down to the things that really make you happy.

If youd asked me after Band of Brothers what thing I wanted to do next, I certainly never would have imagined Southland.

Classic is our daring, classic our cowardice. Classic is our cruelty, classic our charity.