Politics [is] the art of achieving the maximum amount of freedom for individuals that is consistent with the maintenance of social order.

Small men, seeking great wealth or power, have too often and too long turned even the highest levels of public service into mere personal opportunity.

While I am a great believer in the free enterprise system and all that it entails, I am an even stronger believer in the right of our people to live in a clean and pollution-free environment.

Hubert Humphrey talks so fast that listening to him is like trying to read Playboy magazine with your wife turning the pages.

A woman has a right to an abortion. That's a decision that's up to the pregnant woman, not up to the pope or some do-gooders or the Religious Right.

The Republicans have a positive talent for self-destruction.

By maintaining the separation of church and state, the United States has avoided the intolerance which has so divided the rest of the world with religious wars.

I've always said I have nothing against a woman doing anything a man can do as long as she gets home in time to cook dinner.

I do not undertake to promote welfare, for I propose to extend freedom. My aim is not to pass laws but to repeal them.

Where is the politician who has not promised to fight to the death for lower taxes- and who has not proceeded to vote for the very spending projects that make tax cuts impossible?

The fellow has absolutely no principles."Money and gall" is all he has.

Love me for stupid reasons, I like those most.

I didn't care, because I loved him, and that was the end of every argument and the beginning of every promise.

Dreams are our only geography—our native land.

History is changed by martyrs who tell the truth.

We desperately need each other in the daily fight to follow Christ in a world that's full of sin.

I’m no good for anything except taking the world apart and putting it together again (and I manage the latter less and less frequently).

Earthworms will dance

Music is such an important element in creating the drama that a runway show needs in order to be memorable and to make the clothes come to life.

Friendship is like those ancient altars where the unhappy, and even the guilty, found a sure asylum.

Enjoy it. Because it's happening.