Whatever is morally necessary must be made politically possible.

Saying we should keep the two-party system simply because it is working is like saying the Titanic voyage was a success because a few people survived on life-rafts.

An efficient bureaucracy is the greatest threat to liberty.

We do not need presidents who are bigger than the country, but rather ones who speak for it and support it.

As long as the differences and diversities of mankind exist, democracy must allow for compromise, for accommodation, and for the recognition of differences.

This is, I say, the time for all good men not to go to the aid of their party, but to come to the aid of their country.

Vote against anything introduced with a "re" in it, especially reforms, reorganizations, and recodifications. This usually means going back to something that failed once and is likely to do so again.

We don't declare war any more; we declare national defense.

It is dangerous for a national candidate to say things that people might remember.

The only thing that saves us from bureaucracy is its inefficiency.

Anything said three times in Washington becomes a fact.

Perhaps we have stopped ourselves from being invented, from self-realization, by blaming others for our wordlessness.

I will always desire to play with Bruce Springsteen. He's the most inspirational, most dedicated, most committed and most focused artist I've ever seen. I like to be around people like that.

A lot of the music editing job is communication and working out what a director really wants the music to be.

Life might be easier if you give in a little, but it's better if you hold onto something so hard you can't give it up.

All men are free and equal in the grave, if it comes to that.

By my intimacy with nature I find myself withdrawn from man. My interest in the sun and the moon, in the morning and the evening, compels me to solitude.

If you are to be among the noble you must be noble. If you are to be among the wise, you must be wise, if you would be among the pure in heart, you must be pure in heart.

Teenage rebellion is for suburban schoolchildren. Get over it.

Just throw me in my coffin now with these earrings on.

I'm kind of shy and quiet. But I'm only shy in my personal life. If I'm working, somehow I'm not and it goes away.