It is my passionate belief that we can all have better health care through rationing.

Christmas is the time when kids tell Santa what they want and adults pay for it. Deficits are when adults tell government what they want and their kids pay for it.

America does not need another political campaign based on denial and avoidance of some of our real problems. It needs a crusade to reform and renew our country, its institutions and political system.

I think that retiring the baby boomers is going to be one of the great challenges in America, that you cannot make fiscal sense out of the future of our children without taking on entitlements.

Peace is neither the absence of war nor the presence of a disarmament agreement. Peace is a change of heart.

All we know about the new economic world is that nations which train engineers will prevail over those which train lawyers. No nation has ever sued its way to greatness.

Politics is a love-hate relationship. I sure know that.

Amnesty is a big billboard, a flashing billboard, to the rest of the world that we don't really mean our immigration law.

You know, 600,000 millionaires get a Social Security check every month. I think there's enough waste and inefficiency.

Politics, like theater, is one of those things where you've got to be wise enough to know when to leave.

To me, the failure of liberalism - the tradition I come from - was not recognizing there has to be justice across the generations.

Life is a dance between what keeps us going and what is holding us back

There is no man in any rank who is always at liberty to act as he would incline in some quarter or other he is limited by circumstances.

No place is perfect, but I admire Oahu for its offering of the tropical and the urban, and then its Asian-inflected culture and cuisines.

To use the same words is not a sufficient guarantee of understanding; one must use the same words for the same genus of inward experience; ultimately one must have one's experiences in common.

I had a lot of time and the first year I was in prison, I tried to get the party to stop the shooting, to stop the talk about the gun thing.

To know yourself you have only to set down a true statement of those that ever loved or hated you.

A cold in the head in June is an immoral thing.

When it comes to .NET they've done a really outstanding job.

I think it is lost.....but nothing is ever lost nor can be lost .

The cares of this life emerge as very small items indeed along our daily path.