The Republicans believe that the wagon train will not make it to the frontier unless some of the old, some of the young, some of the weak are left behind.

People expect Byzantine, Machiavellian logic from politicians. But the truth is simple. Trial lawyers learn a good rule: 'Don't decide what you don't have to decide.' That's not evasion, it's wisdom.

You want calamities? What about the Ice Age? God made this world, but didn't complete it.

There are only two rules for being successful. One, figure out exactly what you want to do, and two, do it.

For me to make lasagna would be a desecration of a great Italian dish. . . . I don't mess with sacred things.

There are few things more amusing in the world of politics than watching moderate Republicans charging to the right in pursuit of greater glory.

The mugger who is arrested is back on the street before the police officer, but the person mugged may not be back on the street for a long time, if ever.

I talk and talk and talk, and I haven't taught people in 50 years what my father taught by example in one week.

Every time I've done something that doesn't feel right, it's ended up not being right.

The American people need no course in philosophy or political science or church history to know that God should not be made into a celestial party chairman.

A judge can manipulate the law. A smart lawyer can keep a killer out of jail.

I choose what to wear depending on how I feel and what I'm comfortable in. That's when you look your best.

Beneficial in theory, so-called free trade agreements far too often have been detrimental to the United States economy and the manufacturing sector that forms its central pillar.

I really want to understand the mind so I can be more comfortable with the way people are. Being comfortable with people is incredibly important.

Your absence has not taught me how to be alone, it merely has shown that when together we cast a single shadow on the wall

What is here a right towards men, is a duty towards the Creator.

No company fails in communist China, because they're all partly owned by the government.

God strung up his own son like a side of veal. I shudder to think what he would do to me.

Films about the English monarchy, they tend to have a lavishness, sumptuous imagery, it's all very posh and rich.

It is sufficient for you that the one who envies you is distressed at the time of your joy.

[Mark Twain] is still the rough, awkward, good-natured boy who swore at the deck hands when he was three years old. Thoroughly likeable as a good fellow, but impossible as a man of letters.