A good debater can be a good communicator. You have to communicate when you're president of the United States, and communicate effectively with the American people, and with the world.

I believe we are on an irreversible trend toward more freedom and democracy - but that could change.

Republicans understand the importance of bondage between a mother and child.

The Holocaust was an obscene period in our nation's history.

It's time for the human race to enter the solar system.

We will move forward, we will move upward, and yes, we will move onward.

Murphy Brown is doing better than I am. At least she knows she still has a job next year.

For NASA, space is still a high priority.

We all lived in this century, I didn't live in this century.

Our party has been accused of fooling the public by calling tax increases 'revenue enhancement'. Not so. No one was fooled

The question in life is not whether you get knocked down. You will. The question is, are you ready to get back up... And fight for what you believe in?

I don't know about you, the world is here to be mythologized. It has, therefore, no other end. Transforming into myth, to be a myth! That's what we call eternity.

You're gorgeous, you old hag, and if I could give you just one gift ever for the rest of your life it would be this. Confidence. It would be the girl of confidence. Either that or a scented candle.

I think that if I couldn't write, I would be unemployable.

To become free, you have to be acutely aware of being a slave.

The Palestinians need more help from the Arab countries. Since 1967, the world has learned that there is not going to be real progress in the region until Palestine gets something back that they had.

Sometimes I really want to paint somebody and I don't get a photograph that I want to work from.

See yourself in the practice you are not able to access right now. Imagine yourself in it.

And as pale sickness does invade, Your frailer part, the breaches made, In that fair lodging still more clear, Make the bright guest, your soul, appear.

Never think of any right effort as being fruitless. All right effort bears fruit, whether we see the results or not.