Our intent will not be to create gridlock. Oh, except maybe from time to time.

I think one of life's great milestones is when a person can look back and be almost as thankful for the setbacks as for the victories.

You feel a little older in the morning. By noon I feel about 55.

Political advice is a bit like your average Christmas fruitcake: something everyone gives and no one wants.

All the wisdom doesn’t reside in one party.

The internet is a great way to get on the net.

When it's all over, it's not who you were ... it's whether you made a difference.

If something happened along the route and you had to leave your children with Bob Dole or Bill Clinton, I think you would probably leave them with Bob Dole.

I used to think that seniority was a terrible thing when I didn't have any.

There they are. See no evil, hear no evil, and...evil.

Those who cultivate moral confusion for profit should understand this: we will name their names and shame them as they deserve to be shamed.

Indeed, one concern would be that the initial neoconservative response to a zombie outbreak would be to invade Iraq again out of force of habit.

Italy and London are the only places where I don't feel to exist on sufferance.

I'm thankful for weird people out there 'cause they're some of the most creative people.

I feel like we can learn from each other by us, being the young generation, giving knowledge to the older guys.

An old meaning of the word 'restoration' is to find someone with a royal bloodline who has been removed from the throne and then restore the person to that throne - to a position of honor.

Neither a garden nor a gardener can be made in one year, nor in one generation even.

Jerome Charyn is one of the most important writers in American literature and one of only three now writing whose work makes me truly happy to be a reader.

Do you share my belief in Swami Vivekananda's dream that India will be a Jagad Guru once again? I see no reason for India to be left behind.

In my experience at least, the large public universities do not fall behind in fostering creativity and independence; often the contrary.

The Electoral College is justified and right.