We've come full circle but the best remains the heart of the city, the greatest center of the greatest city, our Acropolis, where our Christmas tree is lighted.

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.

Inspiration is one thing and you can't control it, but hard work is what keeps the ship moving. Good luck means, work hard. Keep up the good work.

It takes time to learn to draw. It takes years, not a few weeks.

Holding Frances in my arms is the best drug in the world.

I try to never repeat a character. I always try to find something new and fresh and interesting that inspires me.

Newton came up with Newton's laws of motion and gravity. They worked. They were working.

Whatever enlarges hope will also exalt courage.

The next move is always the test.

If i am ever given the captaincy, I will be very tight on my players to keep them in line.

Each time I see a split infinitive, an inconsistent tense structure or the unnecessary use of the passive voice, I blister.

When a trust is betrayed, that has to be rebuilt.