The Vice-Presidency is sort of like the last cookie on the plate. Everybody insists he won't take it, but somebody always does.

An optimist stays up until midnight to see the new year in. A pessimist stays up to make sure the old year leaves.

We hope that, when the insects take over the world, they will remember with gratitude how we took them along on all our picnics.

The eagle may soar; beavers build dams.

The US has not imposed democracy in Yemen, its people have.

The whale is endangered, while the ant continues to do just fine.

Even pearls are dark before the whiteness of his teeth.

Money won't buy happiness, but it will pay the salaries of a large research staff to study the problem.

Youth is when you're allowed to stay up late on New Year's Eve. Middle age is when you're forced to.

Now that women are jockeys, baseball umpires, atomic scientists, and business executives, maybe someday they can master parallel parking.

The government is shutting down the coal industry, they say it's cheaper to draw nuclear power off the French grid and cheaper to buy coal from Colombia.

Most of the people are nice to live with, but not to do business with!

It is a good face. I am glad this war is over at last.

If those who owe us nothing gave us nothing, how poor we would be.

Religious liberty must be protected in this country. It's a principle upon which we were founded.

By education I am an Englishman, by views an internationalist, by culture a Muslim and a Hindu only by accident of birth.

The 50s face was angry, the 60s face was well-fed, the 70s face was foxy. Perhaps it was the right expression: there was a lot to be wary about.

American Jews, like Americans, have a very consumerist attitude toward their identity: they pick and choose the bits of this and that they like.

Calf love doesn't usually survive amputation, Your Majesty.

To wait for hours to buy a train ticket or to see a doctor is accepted as a normal way of doing things. Privacy is not a great preoccupation, and this is a very crowded country.

My respect for human beings is based not on the colour of a man’s skin nor authority he may wield, but purely on merit.