I believe we all must face the fact of death. It is both gift and curse.

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.

Who has not sat before his own heart's curtain? It lifts: and the scenery is falling apart.

To a woman nothing seems quite impossible to the powers of the man she worships.

When wisdom gives way to whimsy and ethics fall to excitement, it is highly likely that the ground beneath me will ‘give way’ and it is I who will ‘fall.

Her laugh was wonderful. It was mischief made musical.

How casually and unobservedly we make all our most valued acquaintances.

Gardening gloves are for sissies. I always have dirt under my nails.

Quantum field theory arose out of our need to describe the ephemeral nature of life.

Nothing really immoral is ever permanently popular.

The world is full of contradiction.

After all this time, I know exactly where I belong.