Of course, it's a mystery to me why any American who can't be bothered to pay attention to politics unless Pamela Anderson is discussing it should be welcome in that conversation.

If power made one evil, then God would be the Devil.

The government cannot love you, and any politics that works on a different assumption is destined for no good.

Someone once noted that a 'gaffe' in Washington is when a politician accidentally tells the truth.

America's political system used to be about the pursuit of happiness. Now More and more of us want to stop chasing it and have it delivered.

I am just mystified by these people telling me I would think Obama was doing a great job if his skin contained less melanin.

Cultures grow on the vine of tradition.

Our fear of hypocrisy is forcing us to live in a world where gluttons are fine, so long as they champion gluttony.

Facts are mere speed bumps on the road to lefty moral outrage.

I don't think twice about picking up my dog's poop, but if another dog's poop is next to it, I think, 'Eww, dog poop!

Today's unions are less Mobbed-up than those of yesteryear to be sure, but they're hardly above tactics that would be considered intimidating and coercive.

For God did not give us a spirit of timidity, but of power and of love and of calm and well balanced mind and discipline and self-control.

I am enjoying to a full that period of reflection which is the happiest conclusion to a life of action.

America, now is not the time for small plans.

After a certain age - and for some of us that can be very young - there are no new people, beasts, dreams, faces, events: it has all happened before.

There was a time in medieval England when they had wandering minstrels ... A wandering minstrel would have been Frank Sinatra's counterpart had he lived during the time of Henry II in 1190 or 1180.

For me, Duke was personal. I hated Duke and I hated everything I felt Duke stood for. Schools like Duke didn’t recruit players like me. I felt like they only recruited players who were Uncle Toms.

The black church will accept anybody.

All my life I've believed that men and women have equal capacities and talents...consequently there should be equality in life's chances.

You don't reach points in life at which everything is sorted out for us. I believe in endings that should suggest our stories always continue.

Dates and periods are of interest only to the student of musical history.