I look at the universe and I know there's an architect.

It's my father's legacy. My father's view was that the public is the employer of these government employees and has the right to know what they're up to.

The incestuous relationship between government and big business thrives in the dark.

I don't like to hurt people, I really don't like it at all. But in order to get a red light at the intersection, you sometimes have to have an accident.

That's a great team we lost to. It just wasn't our day.

The insurance industry communicates through codes and check-off boxes. If there's no check-off box for you, you don't exist.

I believe our country is strong enough to be criticized.

Indeed, the U.N. is the main Soviet espionage center in this country.

Once an innovation is implemented it is no longer innovative.

Ignore those who resent you. Avoid those who begrudge you. Excuse those who envy you. Pity those who hate you.

Great is a great one whose great ones are great

New York's such a wonderful city. Although I was at the library today. The guy was very rude. I said, "I'd like a card." He says, "You have to prove you're a citizen of New York." So I stabbed him.

being asked to decide between your passion for work and your passion for children was like being asked by your doctor whether you preferred him to remove your brain or your heart.

Involved sentences, crooked, circuitous, and parenthetical, no matter how musically they may be balanced, are prejudicial to a facile understanding of the truth.

He had picked up languages the way most sailors pick up diseases; languages were his gonorrhoea, his syphilis, his scurvy, his ague, his plague.

Let's face it: Many on the political right believe this president ought not to be there - they oppose him not for his polices and political view but for who he is, an African American!

I wasn't frightened of people, but I didn't have a clue about the adult world.

Mr. Speaker, I am sure the picture of the hon. member of the NDP [Svend Robinson] is posted in much more wonderful places than just police stations.

It is for us to begin. If we take one step towards the Lord, he takes ten towards us -- he who saw the prodigal son while he was at a distance, and had compassion and ran and embraced him.