If we increase spending, we have got to raise taxes or any combination.

It is difficult to overstate the importance of the Civil Rights Act.

It is virtually impossible to compete in today's global economy without a college degree.

The Federal prison population has increased more than 7-fold over the past 20 years.

There is nothing Federal about local volunteer fire departments.

No one should be denied the opportunity to get an education and increase their earning potential based solely on their inability to pay for a college education.

In the Brown decision, the United States Supreme Court unanimously struck down the legal and moral footing of racially segregated public education in this country.

While there are many obstacles that deter students from going to college, finances by no means should be the deciding factor.

We can play politics, or we can reduce crime.

We can continue our progress as a Nation toward the promise that all people are created equal and that our Nation will treat every person in that spirit.

Obviously, there has to be a profound change in direction. Otherwise, interest on the national debt will start eating up virtually every penny that we have.

I believe in evolution in the sense that a short-tempered man is the successor of a crybaby.

Failure is so much more interesting.

One of the primary goals in life should be to prepare for death. Everything else should be secondary.

Someone needs to drag you kicking and screaming into this century.

There never was one particle of... jealousy... in the heart of Hyrum Smith.

There was never a child so lovely but his mother was glad to get him to sleep.

Smart people don't learn... because they have too much invested in proving what they know and avoiding being seen as not knowing.

If you don't drink coffee, I am suspicious of your character and will not invite you to my Italian lake home.

Whenever we are ill, we need to search our hearts to see what we need to forgive.

Above all, the translation of books into digital formats means the destruction of boundaries. Bound, printed texts are discrete objects: immutable, individual, lendable, cut off from the world.