I don't need to be asking for money for local museums and other projects just to make me look good back home.

One of the greatest titles in the world is parent, and one of the biggest blessings in the world is to have parents to call mom and dad.

Motorists who want to save money on gas will demand and buy more fuel-efficient vehicles. We should not limit their freedom with more government regulations.

If we become too scared to confront the chief problems of our time, there is no hope of ever solving them.

Vouchers lead to competition, not re-segregation.

Dependency encourages social problems.

We must now make clear to Lebanon that it will not benefit from U.S. assistance and support as long as it harbors this brutal terrorist and murder.

I'd like to see a Republican Party that embraces a lot of the libertarian ideas.

Many Democrats are sincere in their desire to help others.

We know from our own history that democratic institutions take decades to mature, and we know from past conflicts that freedom is not free.

I would support a devolution of power out of Washington for education, health care, transportation.

...the heart has no tears to give, --it drops only blood, bleeding itself away in silence.

The greyhound that starts many hares kills none.

I'm an optimist in the sense that I believe humans are noble and honorable, and some of them are really smart. I have a very optimistic view of individuals.

I was unhappy and I couldn't figure out what was the matter. And he told me to go take a writing course. And I didn't even know that one could learn to write in writing courses.

I started out as a Democrat.

Cultural dominance of middle-class norms prevail in middle-class schools with a teacher teaching toward those standards and with students striving to maintain those standards.

Make the present good, and the past will take care of itself.

I had somebody say to me once, 'You can't make the kind of music you're making and call yourself a feminist.' The door was slammed on them swiftly after that.

Lawyers-a profession it is to disguise matters.

Bourbon does for me what the piece of cake did for Proust.