To my mind the single essential element on which all discoveries will be dependent is human freedom.

Small men, seeking great wealth or power, have too often and too long turned even the highest levels of public service into mere personal opportunity.

While I am a great believer in the free enterprise system and all that it entails, I am an even stronger believer in the right of our people to live in a clean and pollution-free environment.

Hubert Humphrey talks so fast that listening to him is like trying to read Playboy magazine with your wife turning the pages.

A woman has a right to an abortion. That's a decision that's up to the pregnant woman, not up to the pope or some do-gooders or the Religious Right.

The Republicans have a positive talent for self-destruction.

By maintaining the separation of church and state, the United States has avoided the intolerance which has so divided the rest of the world with religious wars.

I've always said I have nothing against a woman doing anything a man can do as long as she gets home in time to cook dinner.

I do not undertake to promote welfare, for I propose to extend freedom. My aim is not to pass laws but to repeal them.

Where is the politician who has not promised to fight to the death for lower taxes- and who has not proceeded to vote for the very spending projects that make tax cuts impossible?

The fellow has absolutely no principles."Money and gall" is all he has.

We live for the glory of God.

Through everything I have passed but nowhere I have been.

I need nothing. I seek nothing. I desire nothing.

More than anything, it's my son's smile and love that makes me light up!

Blessed be sleep! We are all young then; we are all happy. Then our dead are living.

She mediated, by turns, on broken promises and broken arches, phaetons and false hangings, Tilneys and trap-doors.

Texas is a state of mind. Texas is an obsession. Above all else, Texas is a nation in every sense of the word.

If you can't eat it, drink it, smoke it, or snort it... then f*ck it!

I want to help clean up the state that is so sorry today of journalism. And I have a communications degree.

As we sometimes find one thing while we are looking for another, so, if truth escaped me, happiness and contentment fell in my way.