The Senate is the last primitive society in the world. We still worship the elders of the tribe and honour the territorial imperative.

Saying we should keep the two-party system simply because it is working is like saying the Titanic voyage was a success because a few people survived on life-rafts.

An efficient bureaucracy is the greatest threat to liberty.

We do not need presidents who are bigger than the country, but rather ones who speak for it and support it.

As long as the differences and diversities of mankind exist, democracy must allow for compromise, for accommodation, and for the recognition of differences.

This is, I say, the time for all good men not to go to the aid of their party, but to come to the aid of their country.

Vote against anything introduced with a "re" in it, especially reforms, reorganizations, and recodifications. This usually means going back to something that failed once and is likely to do so again.

We don't declare war any more; we declare national defense.

It is dangerous for a national candidate to say things that people might remember.

Whatever is morally necessary must be made politically possible.

The only thing that saves us from bureaucracy is its inefficiency.

Tranquil breeze Glittering beach Dancing water Bluest skyMy mind flies high with joyful laughter.

Believe on YOURSELF and not on the WORLD!

Grant me the courage not to give up even though I think it is hopeless.

I decided that I would be one of the biggest new names; and I actually had some little fancy business cards printed up to announce it, 'Count Basie. Beware, the Count is Here.'

I generally will answer any question about anything.

Death means that a form of life dissolves or that the imminent possibility of dissolution exists, whether through our own death or through illness or old age.

There are times when I catch myself believing that there is such a thing as something; which is separate from something else.

The book you don't read won't help.

as all clocks need winding, so all human brains and bodies need to be wound up by sleeping.

Nature always strikes back. It takes all the running we can do to remain in the same place.