Listen more often than you speak.

What did the president know, and when did he know it?

It is almost always the cover-up rather than the event that causes trouble.

The most difficult thing in any negotiation, almost, is making sure that you strip it of the emotion and deal with the facts.

In Washington I'm thought of as a conservative, but in Tennessee I'm thought of as a Bolshevik.

Demography is changing us as we are older societies, we're living longer. How the generations balance each other out, how that affects education and health care.

If you don't like the question that's asked, answer some other question.

Eventually, somebody is going to be a hero, and somebody's going to be president. Not necessarily the same person.

The beginning of the decline of the Republic was the day they air-conditioned the Capitol.

You've got to guard against speaking more clearly than you think.

If this society ascribes roles to Black men which they are not allowed to fulfill, is it Black women who must bend and alter our lives to compensate, or is it society that needs changing?

Oh God Angel, " he whispered. "There's only one monster here." ~Sade~

I ain't got a job cause I ain't got a car, so I'm looking for a girl with a job and a car.

We have to enforce the individual mandate. We're losing a lot of money that is not coming into the system.

The real Antichrist is he who turns the wine of an original idea into the water of mediocrity.

Real revenge is making something of yourself.

You can't sit on the lid of progress. If you do, you will be blown to pieces.

Young people are still experiencing the thrill of three chords and over-amplified guitars. They always will.

A pacifist has a lot of difficulty reconciling pacifism with scripture.

The more years I go, the more experience I have, the more that nutrition and eating the right foods is important for recovery and things like that.