I think modern societies have to ask a very basic question: What strategies buy the most health for people? Doctors can do so many marvelous things now. They can keep a corpse alive, almost.

Christmas is the time when kids tell Santa what they want and adults pay for it. Deficits are when adults tell government what they want and their kids pay for it.

America does not need another political campaign based on denial and avoidance of some of our real problems. It needs a crusade to reform and renew our country, its institutions and political system.

I think that retiring the baby boomers is going to be one of the great challenges in America, that you cannot make fiscal sense out of the future of our children without taking on entitlements.

Peace is neither the absence of war nor the presence of a disarmament agreement. Peace is a change of heart.

All we know about the new economic world is that nations which train engineers will prevail over those which train lawyers. No nation has ever sued its way to greatness.

Politics is a love-hate relationship. I sure know that.

Amnesty is a big billboard, a flashing billboard, to the rest of the world that we don't really mean our immigration law.

You know, 600,000 millionaires get a Social Security check every month. I think there's enough waste and inefficiency.

Politics, like theater, is one of those things where you've got to be wise enough to know when to leave.

To me, the failure of liberalism - the tradition I come from - was not recognizing there has to be justice across the generations.

The heart of the Pharisee is within us all, to redefine God's law so it doesn't apply to me anymore. It applies to my neighbor but not to me.

To wish to act like angels while we are still in this world is nothing but folly.

Here I am, one of the most colorful women of my time - if not of my block - being made to sound positively legumelike in printed interviews.

intelligence is always intimidating to those who aren't!

Life is like a movie-since there aren't any commercial breaks, you have to get up and go to the bathroom in the middle of it.

Everyone knows the rules of three's, you can survive three weeks without food, but not in this environment.

I just wish they'd put a new word in the dictionary bigger than love because love just doesn't describe what I feel.

Writing is a hard gig, and it's hard to convey a lot. That's why scripts tend to be a little bit overwritten.

I get out of the taxi and it's probably the only city which in reality looks better than on the postcards, New York.

I'm also inspired by great art and people who create and contribute rather than destroy.