Something is wrong with America. I wonder sometimes what people are thinking about or if they're thinking at all.

I think one of life's great milestones is when a person can look back and be almost as thankful for the setbacks as for the victories.

Our intent will not be to create gridlock. Oh, except maybe from time to time.

You feel a little older in the morning. By noon I feel about 55.

Political advice is a bit like your average Christmas fruitcake: something everyone gives and no one wants.

All the wisdom doesn’t reside in one party.

The internet is a great way to get on the net.

When it's all over, it's not who you were ... it's whether you made a difference.

If something happened along the route and you had to leave your children with Bob Dole or Bill Clinton, I think you would probably leave them with Bob Dole.

I used to think that seniority was a terrible thing when I didn't have any.

There they are. See no evil, hear no evil, and...evil.

When a man tells you he knows the exact truth about anything, you are safe in inferring he is an inexact man.

Bringing joy to another lights a thousand suns within.

Rather than being your thoughts and emotions, be the awareness behind them.

These people are very unskilled in arms... with 50 men they could all be subjected and made to do all that one wished.

Listening is not a displacement for leadership. You have to have leadership.

I have all this time between projects, and I'm not so sure that's a healthy thing. It's scary, because at 36 I'm woefully unqualified for anything else.

I think you guys are going to have to come up with a lot of wonderful new lies, or people just aren't going to want to go on living.

I'm fascinated about how past events shape our perception of current events and how they make us the people we are.

Never grow weary in the fight to rescue the most forgotten.

Sight is something you take for granted until you think you might lose it.