God is not an American. Nature did not design Americans to be prosperous forever.

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.

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

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.

We all have the Wisdom to understand that sooner or later Life will end, but we don’t have the Willpower to Live before we die.

Love seems to open and expand us right down to the cellular level, while fear causes us to contract and withdraw into ourselves.

People. You must love people. Men are admirable. I wantto vomit—and suddenly, there it is: the Nausea

For the Christian, death is not the end of adventure but a doorway from a wold where dreams and adventures shrink, to a world where dreams and adventures forever expand.

My father comes from a generation of film that actors my age don't even know about, which is really sad.

How prone poor Humanity is to dam up the minutest remnants of its freedom, and build an artificial roof to prevent it looking up to the clear blue sky.

If you develop 10 things, and you can get two or three made, that's a very high ration.

Some people regard discipline as a chore. For me, it is a kind of order that sets me free to fly.

The world has achieved brilliance without conscience. Ours is a world of nuclear giants and ethical infants.

A book that is shut is but a block.