No one is innocent after the experience of governing. But not everyone is guilty.

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.

The limits of your language are the limits of your world.

Be able to be alone. Lose not the advantage of solitude, and the society of thyself.

Failure and its accompanying misery is for the artist his most vital source of creative energy.

Sometimes I hate you, sometimes I hate myself, but always I miss you

From a strictly economic point of view, buying gold in a major inflation and holding it probably presents the least risk of capital loss of any investment or speculation.

I admire [Samuel] Beckett, but I am totally against him. He seeks no improvement.

No one can out-sin the cross of Christ.

Just as Parkinson's isn't a big topic of conversation in my house, neither is my career.

My secret is being not terrible at a lot of things.

No attempt of curing the body should be made without curing the soul