Things become complicated if there are enough people to complexify them.

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.

Every great endeavour is fueled by great enthusiasm.

For humans to move to higher ground, we must have different views, but share the common ground as well.

Until you find something to fight for, you settle for something to fight against.

We need to be together, and love each other.

I was really obsessed with age. I kept saying it was a record about trying to age gracefully.

Nothing in life and nothing that we do is risk-free.

Money isn't everything as long as you have enough.

In the game of life, when the final buzzer sounds, the only stat you carry with you is the number of assists you made.

We're getting back what we're putting out.