A responsible government does not triple the national debt in eight years.

You are entitled to your opinion. But you are not entitled to your own facts.

To be Irish is to know that in the end the world will break your heart.

The single most exciting thing you encounter in government is competence, because it's so rare.

Somehow liberals have been unable to acquire from life what conservatives seem to be endowed with at birth: namely, a healthy skepticism of the powers of government agencies to do good.

Marriage orients men and women toward the future, asking them not just to commit to each other but to plan, to earn, to save, and to devote themselves to advancing their children's prospects.

The steady expansion of welfare programs can be taken as a measure of the steady disintegration of the Negro family structure over the past generation in the United States.

I'm a Democrat, and there are an important group of things only the government can do. But let us be clear that for most of the world, what they most need is less government.

If the newspapers of a country are filled with good news, the jails of that country will be filled with good people.

I can live with the robber barons, but how do you live with these pathological radicals?

The principal objective of American government at every level should be to see that children are born into intact families and that they remain so.

The sudden loss of her father was like living with a wound that would never heal, yet her memories of him were fading more and more every day.

Man’s guilt in history and in the tides of his own blood has been complicated by technology, the daily seeping falsehearted death.

Free services like Wikipedia I don't think benefit anyone - they don't benefit the professional because they're not paid.

Pride is generally censured and decried, but mainly by those who have nothing to be proud of.

Beauty is not the cause of something, it is what it is.

You can't change the past so change something you can. the future!

A good chaos theory means you have a disciplined strategy behind the scenes of how you're going to roll out policy. And then you do it in a way that inflicts chaos on the press and your opponents.

Your Mother was A Hamster and you Father Smelled of elder berries.

And I swear, if there is a way for us to be together, I will find it. No matter how long it takes. If I have to chase your soul to the ends of eternity, I won't stop until I find you, I promise.

For about the first ten years of my career, I wasn't terribly motivated.