Whether in families or in politics, a good observation: "One can disagree without being disagreeable."

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.

A person must be in tune with the light and dark forces of their nature and remain in harmony with the bands of their own multivariate being.

Yech," said Simon. "Don't 'yech' me. You're the one with the magical spit.

Passionate jealousy is not a good foster-parent for prudence.

Trails are relatively inexpensive. A splendid national network of all kinds of trails can be established at less cost than a few hundred miles of super highway.

Ladies and gentlemen, my mother thanks you, my father thanks you, my sister thanks you, and I thank you!

How can a coach have any influence over a player that's making over five times more than he is?

I tell anyone who asks me - Scholes is the best English player.

If, for some reason, we make some big mistake and IBM wins, my personal feeling is that we are going to enter a computer Dark Ages for about twenty years.

I'm not some movie star relying on a studio. I have my own fans and I earned them.

More energy is encapsulated in every drop of good spring water than an average-sized PowerStation is presently able to produce.