If any of you are secret poets, the best way to break into print is to run for the presidency.

Saying we should keep the two-party system simply because it is working is like saying the Titanic voyage was a success because a few people survived on life-rafts.

An efficient bureaucracy is the greatest threat to liberty.

We do not need presidents who are bigger than the country, but rather ones who speak for it and support it.

As long as the differences and diversities of mankind exist, democracy must allow for compromise, for accommodation, and for the recognition of differences.

This is, I say, the time for all good men not to go to the aid of their party, but to come to the aid of their country.

Vote against anything introduced with a "re" in it, especially reforms, reorganizations, and recodifications. This usually means going back to something that failed once and is likely to do so again.

We don't declare war any more; we declare national defense.

It is dangerous for a national candidate to say things that people might remember.

Whatever is morally necessary must be made politically possible.

The only thing that saves us from bureaucracy is its inefficiency.

News is the first rough draft of history.

Reducing our desires and eliminating false neediness is the answer to resolving the nagging inner discomfort that we feel.

Poverty is relative, and, therefor not ignoble.

Whoever feels predestined to see and not to believe will find all believers too noisy and pushy: he guards against them.

My time in the Army gave me an understanding for what it takes to provide for our national security and what it means to our service members and their families.

Country music is about new love and it's about old love.

If I can hit a curveball, why can't I hit a ball that is standing still on a course?

Real bliss is the absence of the wanting of bliss

A creative writing class may be one of the last places you can go where your life still matters.

Men are never so likely to settle a question rightly as when they discuss it freely.