I've spent my whole life with people underestimating me.

Every year, I am reminded of the kids who aren't in the freshman class and aren't graduating. I remember every single one of them. That is the worst of times for me, to see the future snuffed out.

The dog doesn't know the difference between Saturday, Sunday, and Monday, so I have to walk the dog early those days too.

I am interested in getting people to use the healthcare system at the right time, getting them to see the doctor early enough, before a small health problem turns serious.

By putting people around me who will calm me down and slow me down and make sure I work through an issue.

We know the parental support, community support, makes a difference. It's not just the metrics of testing and putting pressure on the schools and on the teachers.

Sure, it is apparent that presidents are looking at polls, but they are also stepping up on issues. President Clinton stepped up on tobacco. He shaped the polls on the tobacco issue.

You don't want to destroy the energy that comes out of a campaign.

I have to admit, in January and February I was in an absolute fuzz. I had no one on board. It wasn't that I didn't know what I was doing, but we didn't have all the pieces put together.

We can't afford as a nation - not because of money but because of our social fabric - to have large numbers of people who are not working.

We have not yet concluded that needle-exchange programs do not encourage drug use.

Always bring something when you come in the world, always give something when you go from this world.... and the something is Always MEMORIES

How long can you be cute?

My dad took on every job he could get. He worked like mad. But then, at some point, he had saved up enough to open his first pub.

Belfastas uncivilised as ever--savage black mothers in houses of dark red brick, friendly manufacturers too drunk to entertain you when you arrive. It amuses me till I get tired.

The soldier is the army.

I've tried to find a new elegance. It's not easy because people want to be shocked. They want explosive fashion. But explosions don't last, they disappear immediately and leave nothing but ashes.

The universe is wider than our views of it.

When God desires to destroy a thing, he entrusts its destruction to the thing itself. Every bad institution of this world ends by suicide.

Benvolio- "By my head, here come the Capulets." Mercutio- "By my heel, I care not.