You know, 600,000 millionaires get a Social Security check every month. I think there's enough waste and inefficiency.

Christmas is the time when kids tell Santa what they want and adults pay for it. Deficits are when adults tell government what they want and their kids pay for it.

America does not need another political campaign based on denial and avoidance of some of our real problems. It needs a crusade to reform and renew our country, its institutions and political system.

I think that retiring the baby boomers is going to be one of the great challenges in America, that you cannot make fiscal sense out of the future of our children without taking on entitlements.

Peace is neither the absence of war nor the presence of a disarmament agreement. Peace is a change of heart.

All we know about the new economic world is that nations which train engineers will prevail over those which train lawyers. No nation has ever sued its way to greatness.

Politics is a love-hate relationship. I sure know that.

Amnesty is a big billboard, a flashing billboard, to the rest of the world that we don't really mean our immigration law.

Politics, like theater, is one of those things where you've got to be wise enough to know when to leave.

To me, the failure of liberalism - the tradition I come from - was not recognizing there has to be justice across the generations.

I think we're rapidly approaching the day where medical science can keep people alive in hospitals, hooked up to tubes and things, far beyond when any kind of quality of life is left at all.

Let your days become a fragrant song where heaven and earth continually collide

In any event, we must remember that it's not the blinded wrongdoers who are primarily responsible for the triumph of evil in the world, but the spiritually sighted servants of the good.

He then alone will strictly be called brave who is fearless of a noble death, and of all such chances as come upon us with sudden death in their train.

Meaning makes a great many things endurable---per haps everything.

You know you've completely descended into madness when the matter of shampoo has ascended to philosophical heights.

Thats the thing about better. You cant own it. You can only pursue it. Stalk it. But once youve tasted it, better is never truly beyond your reach.

The exercise of power in this century has meant for all of us in the United States not arrogance, but agony.

I just want to have fun and party with everyone around the world. That's the only rule, to have fun.

The Governor was strong upon The Regulation Act: The Doctor said that Death was but A scientific fact: And twice a day the Chaplain called, And left a little tract.

Always be ready to speak your mind, and a base man will avoid you.