Every time I've done something that doesn't feel right, it's ended up not being right.

People expect Byzantine, Machiavellian logic from politicians. But the truth is simple. Trial lawyers learn a good rule: 'Don't decide what you don't have to decide.' That's not evasion, it's wisdom.

You want calamities? What about the Ice Age? God made this world, but didn't complete it.

There are only two rules for being successful. One, figure out exactly what you want to do, and two, do it.

For me to make lasagna would be a desecration of a great Italian dish. . . . I don't mess with sacred things.

The Republicans believe that the wagon train will not make it to the frontier unless some of the old, some of the young, some of the weak are left behind.

There are few things more amusing in the world of politics than watching moderate Republicans charging to the right in pursuit of greater glory.

The mugger who is arrested is back on the street before the police officer, but the person mugged may not be back on the street for a long time, if ever.

I talk and talk and talk, and I haven't taught people in 50 years what my father taught by example in one week.

The American people need no course in philosophy or political science or church history to know that God should not be made into a celestial party chairman.

A judge can manipulate the law. A smart lawyer can keep a killer out of jail.

Considering she’d just blown his gray matter into the ether, he was screwed.

The world is aware how jealously the Jewish community guards the Holocaust, both as a memory and a weapon.

Spirituality means seeking experience. Not just belief.

I'm working full time on my job and part time on my fortune

My Peace I leave with you

Great advantages are often attended with great inconveniences, and great minds called to severe trials.

We were also fortunate enough to engage in our service a Canadian Frenchmen, who had been with the Chayenne Indians on the Black mountains, and last summer descended thence by the Little Missouri.

His momma said, Donovan why are you, on the corner of linden and guy R. Brewer?

As you get older as an animal on the planet, you want to get a little more comfortable, you want to get cozier.

The essence of a general's job is to assist in developing a clear sense of purpose . to keep the junk from getting in the way of important things.