It must be understood that, as adults, we are all terminal.

There is nothing to be gained by waiting for a better situation. You see where you are and you do what you can with that.

When scrutiny is lacking, tyranny, corruption and man's baser qualities have a better chance of entering into the public business of any government.

There is no office now closed to a Jew, including the presidency.

Politicians are probably the most underrated people in our society.

My thinking is Lincolnian rather than Jeffersonian, Teddy Rooseveltian rather than Franklin D. Rooseveltian.

Birth and death are the most singular events we experience - and the contemplation of death, as of birth, should be a thing of beauty, not ignobility.

Business, properly understood, is so central to every aspect of our civilization that Republicans should proudly announce that they are indeed the party of business.

Im a politician. What I say is not holy writ.

One can be interested in both fashion and politics, don't you think? They so often go hand in hand. Appearances, saying the right words, making people like you...

Random acts of kindness, however small it may be can transform the world.

Baseball is 90 percent mental. The other half is physical.

I always push forward. It doesn't mean that I'll be perfect. I make mistakes -- but I learn from my mistakes, and move on.

That's the beautiful thing about science - that it's all about things we don't understand, not just the things we do understand.

I don't want to make more friends. I have four kids, I have plenty of friends, and all the personal relationships I need.

Money means in a thousand minds a thousand subtly different, roughly similar, systems of images, associations, suggestions and impulses.

Poetry is nothing but healthy speech.

A state of affairs which leads to daily vexation is not the right state.

The primary symptom of a controller is denial, that is I can't see its symptoms in myself.