There is hardly a facet of life that is now free of some sort of federal action.

We must have government, but we must watch them like a hawk.

Never feel self-pity, the most destructive emotion there is. How awful to caught up in the terrible squirrel cage of self.

The only people who would be in government are those who care more about people than they do about power.

If there is one thing the past years have taught us, it is the importance of a keen and high sense of honor in those who handle our governmental affairs.

Influence comes out of the work that you've done and the things you've stood for. Influence and power shouldn't be given to just anybody who wants them.

When you're old, everything you do is sort of a miracle.

Economics is not a science, in the sense that a policy can be repeatedly applied under similar conditions and will repeatedly produce similar results.

Party organization matters. When the door of a smoke-filled room is closed, there's hardly ever a woman inside.

The business of government is justice.

I have come to believe that one thing people cannot bear is a sense of injustice. Poverty, cold, even hunger are more bearable than injustice.

Passion without perseveranceis fire without fuel.

What we think is life. What we do just defines it.

I learned from him that often contradiction is the clearest way to truth

Nobody lives forever and I've had a blessed life.

I can tell you where my Tonys are. They're in a beautiful place in my living room, in a glass cabinet.

Suffering pulls us farther away from other human beings. It builds a wall made of cries and contempt to separate us.

Craft is part of the creative process.

You do not determine a man's greatness by his talent or wealth, as the world does, but rather by what it takes to discourage him.

Did I request thee, Maker, from my clay To mould me man? Did I solicit thee From darkness to promote me?

I cannot and don't really want to control my mind, soul, or heart when I write and must recognize that I don't think about the readers at that moment of writing.