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.

Everyone in America seems to be joining an organization of some kind, and in Congress one hears from them all.

She was lucky to be wanted not desired though, worse pain is the feeling of being unwanted in love.

Our emotions are like programs that function under the control of the operating system comprising of our beliefs.

Because if I ever get nailed, I don’t want you running out to get the same medicine. Believe me, if it’s you lying out there, I’m gonna make sure you’re alive before I go.

Prayer is the contemplation of the facts of life from the highest point of view.

Narnia! It's all in the wardrobe just like I told you!

Don't sell your soul to buy peanuts for the monkeys.

I submit to you that when in each man the dream of personal greatness dies, democracy loses the real source of its future strength.

I am not afraid of much. I kill all the spiders in my house, and I'm planning to go skydiving. I am into girl power, and I'm very self-sufficient.

When Toni Morrison said 'write the book you want to read,' she didn't mean everybody.

I missed him. Love, I realized, was something your spine memorized. There was nothing you could do about that.