Our great Republic is a government of laws and not of men. Here, the people rule.

A government big enough to give you everything you want is a government big enough to take from you everything you have.

Never be satisfied with less than your very best effort. If you strive for the top and miss, you'll still 'beat the pack.'

An impeachable offense is whatever a majority of the House of Representatives considers it to be at a given moment in history.

There is an old saying, The harder you try the luckier you get. I kind of like that definition of luck.

I hope never to see the day that I cannot admit having made a mistake.

Nothing in life is more important than the ability to communicate effectively.

The spirit of seeking understanding through personal contact with people of other nations and other cultures deserves the respect and support of all.

Teddy Roosevelt... once said, 'Speak softly and carry a big stick.' Jimmy Carter wants to speak loudly and carry a fly swatter.

I believe that truth is the glue that holds government together, not only our government, but civilization itself.

There is no undertaking more challenging, no responsibility more awesome, than that of being a mother.

Leopold, like most men of power and prestige, was not so much interested in listening to what others had to say as he was in having an audience.

Fashion may not be a weapon of the woman but at least it gives her the ammunition.

If the tanks succeed, then victory follows.

I feel that I have done everything, absolutely everything wrong, but perhaps something nice will happen anyway.

I wasn't born an actress, you know. Events made me one.

If man was devolving into a psychotic pit of rotted plasma, [Karl] Rove would be the Alpha of such grime.

Mary had a little putt, she needed it for par. Mary has a second putt...the first one went too far!

At every moment, step by step, one must confront what one is thinking and saying with what one is doing, what one is.

When it gets harder to love, love harder.

Let us try what love will do.