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.

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.

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.

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

There can be no belief if the things we believe in are different from the things we do.

Il y a dans les hommes plus de choses a' admirer que de choses a' me priser. There are more things to admire in people than to despise.

The human mind naturally adapts itself to the position it occupies.

My style of lyric-writing is very specific and has a lot of details, and I think people react most to that.

Poetry begins where language starts: in the shadows and accidents of one person’s life.

As a man thinks of himself, so he is.

Lord, let me heed the angels you put in my path.

Its a very good feeling to be around a man who thinks women are juicy.

There is so much to life; my heart breaks watching someone held captive by addiction.

The Americans sowed the seed, and now they have reaped the whirlwind