The American Constitution was designed to make it hard to have too much government.

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.

If you train your mind to search for the positive things about other people, you will be surprised at how many good things you can observe in them and comment upon.

Beginners focus on analysis, but professionals operate in a three dimensional space. They are aware of trading psychology their own feelings and the mass psychology of the markets.

We found the future, like birds fly into windows.

How vain painting is, exciting admiration by its resemblance to things of which we do not admire the originals.

But Peter had seen too much, knew too well that men-kind didn't need an excuse to be cruel and murder one another.

I think the fact that I look totally artificial, but I am totally real, has its own kind of magic in it.

I'm not afraid of dying I'm afraid of not trying

[Charles] Manson wanted to start a race war. Nobody said he was leading some sort of charge about white supremacy.

In Washington it is an honor to be disgraced. you have to have been somebody to fall.

I think that, as life is action and passion, it is required of a man that he should share the passion and action of his time at peril of being judged not to have lived.