I said I didn't want to run for president. I didn't ask you to believe me.

People expect Byzantine, Machiavellian logic from politicians. But the truth is simple. Trial lawyers learn a good rule: 'Don't decide what you don't have to decide.' That's not evasion, it's wisdom.

You want calamities? What about the Ice Age? God made this world, but didn't complete it.

There are only two rules for being successful. One, figure out exactly what you want to do, and two, do it.

For me to make lasagna would be a desecration of a great Italian dish. . . . I don't mess with sacred things.

The Republicans believe that the wagon train will not make it to the frontier unless some of the old, some of the young, some of the weak are left behind.

There are few things more amusing in the world of politics than watching moderate Republicans charging to the right in pursuit of greater glory.

The mugger who is arrested is back on the street before the police officer, but the person mugged may not be back on the street for a long time, if ever.

I talk and talk and talk, and I haven't taught people in 50 years what my father taught by example in one week.

Every time I've done something that doesn't feel right, it's ended up not being right.

The American people need no course in philosophy or political science or church history to know that God should not be made into a celestial party chairman.

To some extent the history of plagiarism is a history of notebooks.

All what is existing already existed. We are together for a while pondering in agile world.

It was the responsibility of a senior fireman to teach as well as to do.

Why should not the camera artist break away from the worn out conventions and claim the freedom of expression which any art must have to be alive.

But you hate poetry! Yes, but you make me want to write it.

My great concern for you in life is not that you will fail, but that you will succeed in doing the wrong things.

The low'ring element Scowls o'er the darken'd landscape.

It is a well known fact that almost all the outstanding chess-players have been first-class analysts.

If I'm strong, I'm not going to apologize for being strong.

A lot of enslaved people actually made money, but they had no power.