Well, dissent is the tradition in America, and I've been on the side of dissent a good bit of my career, particularly in the last many years of the Republican Congress.

Save the stonewall to build the levees.

Sometimes when you get in a fight with a skunk, you can't tell who started it.

Writing is like breathing, it's possible to learn to do it well, but the point is to do it no matter what.

I believe that Greenland will achieve independence during the time I am still active in politics.

The origin of a modern party is anthropological: humans meet and share food to lower hostility between them and indicate friendship.

Time will unveil all things to posterity.

Important part of our diplomacy is that people take our words seriously.

Skepticism: the mark and even the pose of the educated mind.

To this day writing is the most painful thing to do.

Barbershop conversations are irrefutable proof that heads exist for the sake of hair.

As we prepare our homes to be places where the Spirit is welcome, we will be prepared to feel more 'at home' when we enter the House of the Lord.

I believe if you want to be trusted, you have to trust first. If you do that, you will be betrayed sometimes. But the value of engendering trust is greater than the cost of being betrayed sometimes.