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

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.

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

I think we're rapidly approaching the day where medical science can keep people alive in hospitals, hooked up to tubes and things, far beyond when any kind of quality of life is left at all.

Loss is like a wind, it either carries you to a new destination or it traps you in an ocean of stagnation. You must quickly learn how to navigate the sail, for stagnation is death.

You and I read the same books and hear the same sermons and we come away with different messages. That has to be evidence of some serious problem, right?

Were there no God, we would be in this glorious world with grateful hearts, and no one to thank.

Not to alter one's faults is to be faulty indeed.

A little more matriarchy is what the world needs, and I know it. Period. Paragraph.

Truth is always the enemy of power. And power the enemy of truth.

Imitation is always insult--not flattery.

I'm a runner first before anything else.

If you have the stomach for stocks, but neither the time nor the inclination to do the homework, invest in equity mutual funds.

More precious than life is love, for there can be no life without love.