I don't know whether it's the finest public housing in America or the crown jewel of the American penal system.

There are two kinds of people in the world. Those who have seen the Taj Mahal and love it and those who have not seen the Taj and love it.

We cannot build our own future without helping others to build theirs.

I did not have sexual relations with that woman

NAFTA means jobs. American jobs, and good paying American jobs. If I didn't believe that, I wouldn't support this agreement.

It is dangerously destabilizing to have half the world on the cutting edge of technology while the other half struggles on the bare edge of survival.

Globalisation is not something that we can hold off or turn off. It is the economic equivalent of a force of nature, like wind or water.

It depends upon what the meaning of the word 'is' is.

I admire that about the Republicans: The evidence does not faze them. They are not bothered at all by the facts.

Considering the current sad state of our computer programs, software development is clearly still a black art, and cannot yet be called an engineering discipline.

AIDS is no longer a death sentence for those who can get the medicines. Now it's up to the politicians to create the "comprehensive strategies" to better treat the disease.

Appreciation, not possession, makes a thing ours.

The only revenge which is essentially Christian is that of retaliating by forgiveness.

We have heard much about the poetry of mathematics, but very little of it has yet been sung. The ancients had a juster notion of their poetic value than we.

The severest punishment suffered by a sensitive mind, for injury inflicted upon another, is the consciousness of having done it.

I got a dog-training book. It says Grendel needs mental stimulation, so I tried to train him, but I think he must be retarded.

The pains of childbirth were altogether different from the enveloping effects of other kinds of pain. These were pains one could follow with one's mind.

I do respect the political process and those that cover politics on a regular basis. It's just not for me.

Given that we are passing the climate change bill, which is based on the supposition that the climate is getting warmer, let me point out that it is now snowing outside, in October.

Psychical confidence is the external expression of our internal state of confidence. In simpler terms, it is how confidence looks and sounds.

The struggle to be considered a grown-up begins, I believe, shortly after birth.