Input of public judgement for any major tax reform.

One morning, just like 9/11, there's going to be a disaster. I have yet to see the United Nations do anything effective with either Iran or North Korea.

The idea that a congressman would be tainted by accepting money from private industry or private sources is essentially a socialist argument.

Perseverance is the hard work you do after you get tired of doing the hard work you already did.

All unemployment compensation should be tied to a job training requirement. Now the fact is, 99 weeks is an associate degree.

President Obama has created at least three jobs that I know of - Bob McDonnell, Chris Christie, and Scott Brown.

It may just be because I get homesick, but I have concluded Washington's cherry blossoms are just plain overrated.

I don't see how the party that says it's the party of the family is going to adopt an immigration policy which destroys families that have been here a quarter century.

I'm not a natural leader. I'm too intellectual; I'm too abstract; I think too much.

If Thomas Edison invented electric light today, Dan Rather would report it on CBS News as, 'Candle-making industry threatened'.

The most important social welfare program in America is a job.

Making and thinking about somebody is special... you go in the tracks of saying that you are horrible and not anymore special.

We cannot say who will survive the holocaust of memory.

Our human nature is exactly the same as it was 500 years ago, let alone five years ago.

I hate singing. I hate dancing. I enjoyed doing 'Cabaret' and 'Assassins,' but I would wither up and die in 'The Music Man.'

In history-as-politics, the 'future' is that vacuum in time waiting to be filled with the antics of statesmen.

I think 9/11 guaranteed that national security is going to be in the forefront of every election.

It is however, reasonable, to have perfection in our eye; that we may always advance towards it, though we know it never can be reached.

Our opinion of people depends less upon what we see in them, than upon what they make us see in ourselves

...for the first time in my life, writing was hard. The problem was the teaching...by most Friday afternoons I felt as if I'd spent the week with jumper cables clamped to my brain.

I didn't really like confessional poetry or things. They seemed sort of dated to me, or just corny.