If the newspapers of a country are filled with good news, the jails of that country will be filled with good people.

You are entitled to your opinion. But you are not entitled to your own facts.

To be Irish is to know that in the end the world will break your heart.

The single most exciting thing you encounter in government is competence, because it's so rare.

Somehow liberals have been unable to acquire from life what conservatives seem to be endowed with at birth: namely, a healthy skepticism of the powers of government agencies to do good.

Marriage orients men and women toward the future, asking them not just to commit to each other but to plan, to earn, to save, and to devote themselves to advancing their children's prospects.

The steady expansion of welfare programs can be taken as a measure of the steady disintegration of the Negro family structure over the past generation in the United States.

I'm a Democrat, and there are an important group of things only the government can do. But let us be clear that for most of the world, what they most need is less government.

I can live with the robber barons, but how do you live with these pathological radicals?

The principal objective of American government at every level should be to see that children are born into intact families and that they remain so.

At the heart of the deterioration of the fabric of the Negro society is the deterioration of the Negro family.

Even on my weakest daysI get a little bit stronger

I had a dream about you last night... Unfortunately, it wasn't a dream.

But tears are an indulgence. Memory sings.

If heaven really exists: then heaven is the job, hell is unemployment, while life is merely an interview.

Not a moment passes these days without fresh rushes of academic lemmings off the cliffs they proclaim the political responsibilities of the critic, but eventually all this moralizing will subside.

Isherwood did not so much find himself in Berlin as reinvent himself; Isherwood became a fiction, a work of art.

I never felt interpretation was my job.

You can always reason with a German. You can always reason with a barnyard animal, too, for all the good it does.

Let's be cautious about dreaming up extreme scenarios. The situation in Iraq is still salvageable.

Love compels cruelty To those who do not understand love.