The Republicans have a positive talent for self-destruction.

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.

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.

I think any man in business would be foolish to fool around with his secretary. If it's somebody else's secretary, fine.

For the life of me I cannot remember, what made us think that we were wise and we'd never compromise. For the life of me I cannot believe we'd ever die for these sins, we were merely freshmen.

You can have peace. Or you can have freedom. Don't ever count on having both at once.

Ripe summer's sweetness drippedin pearls from every treeand into my opened hearta little drop ran down.

No matter what is happening in the world, I continue to believe in humanity. The power of positive thinking is always enough.

It's a full time job with a part-time companion.

I wish to have as my epitaph: 'Here lies a man who was wise enough to bring into his service men who knew more than he.'

I have a face that is a cross between two pounds of halibut and an explosion in an old clothes closet.

Generally, people who are not self-realized are full of themselves. One who is self-realized sees that the whole world is full of one.

It's fun to be a girl, and get dressed up, but that's not how I really am.

The heavens forbid But that our loves and comforts should increase Even as our days do grow!