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

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.

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

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.

So, what did you learn?Curiosity asked the Cat, thenpoked her carcass with a stick.

What is a man but another man's memory

This is easy to say with the benefit of hindsight, but I think it once again points out how very important style of leadership, that is the way he does what he does, is to his perception.

Those who give up liberty for the sake of security, deserve neither liberty nor security.

That world! These days it's all been erased and they've rolled it up like a scroll and put it away somewhere. Yes, I can touch it with my fingers. But where is it?

If your result needs a statistician then you should design a better experiment.

We are all mediators, translators.

In the fields I know best, among the life sciences, it is required that the most expert and sophisticated minds be capable of changing course - often with a great lurch - every few years.

What drives me is I love my profession. I love to do it.

I looked through a lens and ended up abandoning everything else.