Right and wrong becomes more difficult for each of us as we grow older, because the older we get the more we know personally about our own human frailties.

Stopping crime before it occurs is the most effective crime fighting tool of all.

Improving our national intelligence capabilities should remain a top priority and a continual process.

A common misconception is that the costs of health care are cheaper in rural America, when in fact the reality is that they are more expensive and more difficult to access.

I am not normally a betting person, but I say that putting your money on the American people is about as close to a sure bet as you are going to get.

It's not my job to dream your dreams. It's my job to make your dreams become a reality.

It certainly makes no sense to enact more laws if we cannot, or do not, enforce the ones we have.

We still have tremendous work ahead of us to ensure that women have equal opportunities in the workplace and in our society.

Unless we make education a priority, an entire generation of Americans could miss out on the American dream.

Now, I do come from a part of the country where the people say that the only thing in the middle of the road is a yellow line or roadkill.

If we invest in the American people, the American people always bring this Nation a good return.

Philosophers tell you what they think. Artists show you.

This age thinks better of a gilded fool Than of a threadbare saint in wisdom's school.

The body can endure compromise and the mind can be seduced by it. Only the heart protests. The heart. Carbon-based primitive in a silicon world.

One mark of good verse is surprise

Einstein said that "the most beautiful experience we can have is the mysterious." So why do so many of us try to explain the beauty of music, thus depriving it of its mystery?

All my life I've lived with a future which constantly diminishes but never vanishes.

An administrator in a bureaucratic world is a man who can feel big by merging his non-entity in an abstraction. A real person in touch with real things inspires terror in him.

George W. Bush has done a magnificent job.

My reason for coming out isn't to be some sort of hero.

Macau is democratic and free enough.. it's prosperous enough. Why do people need to do this?.