There are only two rules for being successful. One, figure out exactly what you want to do, and two, do it.

People expect Byzantine, Machiavellian logic from politicians. But the truth is simple. Trial lawyers learn a good rule: 'Don't decide what you don't have to decide.' That's not evasion, it's wisdom.

You want calamities? What about the Ice Age? God made this world, but didn't complete it.

For me to make lasagna would be a desecration of a great Italian dish. . . . I don't mess with sacred things.

The Republicans believe that the wagon train will not make it to the frontier unless some of the old, some of the young, some of the weak are left behind.

There are few things more amusing in the world of politics than watching moderate Republicans charging to the right in pursuit of greater glory.

The mugger who is arrested is back on the street before the police officer, but the person mugged may not be back on the street for a long time, if ever.

I talk and talk and talk, and I haven't taught people in 50 years what my father taught by example in one week.

Every time I've done something that doesn't feel right, it's ended up not being right.

The American people need no course in philosophy or political science or church history to know that God should not be made into a celestial party chairman.

A judge can manipulate the law. A smart lawyer can keep a killer out of jail.

Let your heart be as big as it can possibly be.

Seeing the family is a very important part of my weekend.

I didn't mind being a public executioner, once I got the hang of it.

I love live music. I love going to the event. And to know them as people and to have seen the Grateful Dead grow up and become who they are is so incredibly special.

Your money should be at work at all times.

I didn’t feel that there was much goodness in me.

Everyone is entitled to an *informed* opinion.

Working Americans who believe in our country and who believe in our Constitution are saying, 'Enough is enough!'

The best way to avoid trouble is to make sure no one wants to trouble you.

When you take a lot of cocaine powder you tend to take a lot of alcohol with it as well, so for many years really I never went out without at least four or five grams of cocaine powder.