The United States in the 1980s may be the first society in history in which children are distinctly worse off than adults.

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.

Cleverness isn't always true nor is the truth always clever.

To make him important in one’s life requires an overactive imagination. Unfortunately, mine never knows when to quit.

Nothing is politically right which is morally wrong.

Insanity's so personal. It's hard to know who shares our secrets.

Isn't it wonderful that two of the most sacred and symbolic plants, the olive and the vine, live on almost nothing, a terrace of limestone, sun and rain.

Lord, I am a surgeon and music is my knife. It cuts away my sorrow and purifies my life.

If you expect respect from others, show it first to yourself. You can't expect from others what you don't give to yourself.

The guy was infected with bird flu because he took a sick chicken, slaughtered it and and then ate it.

Everyone wants to play. They're just afraid of looking stupid. But you know what's stupid? Not trying. So just...try.

By the time an actor knows how to act any sort of part he is often too old to act any but a few.