Secrecy is for losers.

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.

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.

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.

The angry person is acutely sensitive to all they are owed by the world, and blind to all they have received

You know what grandeur is? It's awesome.

Friends are the ones who will always have your back and their perspective on you doesn't change no matter what

Do what makes you happy. And when it doesn't make you happy anymore, make a change -- without fear.

It is our mind, and that alone, that chains us or sets us free.

A mother is she who can take the place of all others but whose place no one else can take.

Every loss of life is terrible.

How do you know that God didn't speak to Charles Darwin?

I look at racism as one of the social demons. And, in its worst, it's violent and it's a systemic commitment to oppression.

I was always a player.