In too many cases, if our Government had set out determined to destroy the family, it couldn't have done greater damage than some of what we see today.

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.

An idea is salvation by imagination

The cigarettes you light one after another won’t help you forget her.

The trouble with all these other countries is they're all being run by foreigners.

Directing is much more satisfying to me than acting.

Everyone who has run knows that its most important value is in removing tension and allowing a release from whatever other cares the day may bring.

What a man hates, he takes seriously.

Wherever there is a heart and an intellect, the diseases of the physical frame are tinged with the peculiarities of these.

You can make sounds and music out of pretty much anything with a little imagination and putting your mind to it!

Now I know how Joan of Arc felt.

The problem with taking amps to a shop is that they come back sounding like another amp.