A gaffe is when a politician tells the truth.

So the danger of conservative judicial activism has been averted for another year. Stay tuned.

Of course, conservatives always claim to be against judicial activism.

The takings clause of the Fifth Amendment is for conservatives what the equal protection clause of the 14th is for liberals.

Many 'hard' scientists regard the term 'social science' as an oxymoron. Science means hypotheses you can test, and prove or disprove. Social science is little more than observation putting on airs.

In those days, the late 1970s, one of the leading politicians was a soon-to-be uncle by marriage of Arnold Schwarzenegger, named Ted Kennedy.

He's nice enough not to want to be associated with a nasty remark but not nice enough not to make it. Lacking the courage of one's nastiness does not make one nice.

Americans don't want leadership. They want alchemy.

Anything that keeps a politician humble is healthy for democracy.

If sexual intercourse, as the poets tell us, began in 1963, it was another decade and a half before the American political system began to take notice.

If hypocrisy is the tribute vice pays to virtue, piousness is virtue paying tribute to itself.

Never mock a cub

There might be false starts and do-overs. You are entitled to experiment before you find your calling.

At eighty things do not occur; they recur.

I'm trying to move an aircraft carrier here, I'm not just steering the speedboat.

Nowhere does history indulge in repetitions so often or so uniformly as in Wall Street.

It is our right to stay here and we will stay and stand up for what belongs to us as American citizens, because they can't say that we haven't had patience.

When the most important times are occurring, we don't even recognize them or notice. We are just busy living our lives. Only looking back do we know what was a great moment in our lives.

It is, indeed, a trial to maintain the virtue of humility when one can't help being right.

If you can't do something willingly and joyfully, then don't do it.

Rotation of crops and less automobiles will relieve the farmers whenever they decide to try it.