There's an old rule of thumb in politics that 90 percent of all 90 year-olds vote and 25 percent of all 25 year-olds vote.

I'm extremely proud of my family's record of public service to Massachusetts and the nation.

I've had a tough time learning how to act like a Congressman. Today I accidentally spent some of my own money.

Thought's a luxury. Do you think the peasant sits and thinks of God and Democracy when he gets inside his mud hut at night?

The average Christian is so cold and so contented with His wretched condition that there is no vacuum of desire into which the blessed Spirit can rush in satisfying fullness.

I think you can get to a point where nihilism, if that's the right word, is overwhelming, and the basic laws that society has set up - either religious or social laws - become meaningless.

My technique is the outcome of thinking for myself, of my own logic and approach; it is not borrowed from what others are doing.

Baseball is fathers and sons. Football is brothers beating each other up in the backyard.

The American people want their government to act, and not merely to talk, whenever and wherever there is a threat to world peace.

Kitsch is art that follows established rules in a time when all rules in art are put into question by each artist.

Am I really a good mathematician?

Sometimes you can't pay it back, so you just have to pay it forward.

The mind is seldom quickened to very vigorous operations but by pain, or the dread of pain. We do not disturb ourselves with the detection of fallacies which do us no harm.