It has proved politically wiser to set goals than to start programs.

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.

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

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.

You can'tstop dreamingjust becausethe night neverseems toend.

On this platform of peace, we can create a languageto translate ourselves to ourselves and to each other.

Awareness seeped in and brought its friends Pain and Agony for a visit.

animals never worry about Heaven or Hell. neither do I. maybe that's why we get along

Today's business climate is not for me.

In the Zen of sports and athletics, we seek to bring discipline and control into our physical movements, but at the same time to eliminate the self that gets in the way of perfect play.

An editorial writer might consult a reporter to see what she thinks, if it is what she covers. But they are entirely independent.

Justice doesn't only mean that the people who commit crime are punished. It also means that we can never give up seeking the truth.

We know that much of the training and the direction for terrorists comes from Pakistan and the border area with Afghanistan

Why should I live? Why should I do anything? Is there in life any purpose which the inevitable death that awaits me does not undo and destroy?