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.

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.

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.

At the heart of the deterioration of the fabric of the Negro society is the deterioration of the Negro family.

All Darkness was one darkness in the end. Of heart or Heavens, one Darkness.

I need a man with a good sense of humor and a kind heart.

I never met a politician who didn't want to be a guitar player in a rock band. I've got the opportunity to say what I believe in.

Working with Ronnie Barker was always a joy and were without doubt some of the best years of my career

Anything that can go wrong, will go wrong

Everywhere, the ethical predicament of our time imposes itself with an urgency which suggests that even the question Have we anything to eat? will be answered not in material but in ethical terms.

The only reason I would have liked to have gone to university is because I like cricket. Not a very good reason to want to go, but as good as any, I suppose.

I just think the more were observed by other people, the less we can observe them in order to play them and find their true condition.

When you are doing a piece you are with it. You don't want to wait until next week, when experience will have given you something else.

If I were given a change of life, I'd like to see how it would be to live as a mere six-footer.