I often thought that if there had been a good rap group around in those days, I might have chosen a career in music instead of politics.

There are times when an abortion is necessary. I know that. When you have a black and a white.

Never forget, the press is the enemy. The establishment is the enemy. The professors are the enemy. Professors are the enemy. Write that on a blackboard 100 times and never forget it.

When the President does it, that means that it's not illegal.

Only if you have been in the deepest valley, can you ever know how magnificent it is to be on the highest mountain.

People have got to know whether or not their president is a crook. Well, I'm not a crook. I earned everything I've got.

We cannot learn from one another until we stop shouting at one another - until we speak quietly enough so that our words can be heard as well as our voices.

I don't think a woman should be in any government job whatever. I mean, I really don't. The reason why I do is mainly because they are erratic and emotional.

I know you heard what you thought I said, but what I said isn't what I meant.

I was not lying. I said things that later on seemed to be untrue.

I gave 'em a sword. And they stuck it in, and they twisted it with relish. And I guess if I had been in their position, I'd have done the same thing.

The four most expensive word in the English language are 'This time it's different.

Without our listening, all the stories are the same story.

Show me a liar and I will show thee a thief.

The U.S. government has been preoccupied with health care 'reform, ' but this refers to improving access and insurance coverage and has little or nothing to do with innovation.

I'm horrified of lobsters. And shrimp and lobsters are the cockroaches of the ocean.

Why can't I be the adorable one?

God continuously comes into the world in two places - at the altar and in the womb.

I found that I could not climb my way up to God in a blaze of doing and performing. Rather, I had to descend into the depths of myself and find God there in the darkness of troubled waters.

One link in a chain explains the infinite chain.

The question of good and evil remains in irremediable chaos for those who seek to fathom it in reality. It is mere mental sport to the disputants, who are captives that play with their chains.