The bill's a textbook example of special interest pork barrel politics at work, and I have no choice but to veto it.

Live simply, love generously, care deeply, speak kindly, leave the rest to God.

There is no limit to the amount of good you can do if you don't care who gets the credit.

The greatest leader is not necessarily the one who does the greatest things. He is the one that gets the people to do the greatest things.

A nation that cannot control its borders is not a nation.

We must reject the idea that every time a law's broken, society is guilty rather than the lawbreaker. It is time to restore the American precept that each individual is accountable for his actions.

If more government is the answer, then it was a really stupid question.

Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction. We didn't pass it to our children in the bloodstream. It must be fought for, protected, and handed on for them to do the same.

It's not that liberals aren't smart, it's just that so much of what they know isn't so

I have wondered at times what the Ten Commandments would have looked like if Moses had run them through the US Congress.

I've noticed that everyone who is for abortion has already been born.

The period without the diary remains an ordeal. Every evening I want my diary as one wants opium.

Yoko had 10 years and I had 10 years and I would rather have had the 10 years I had than the ones she did. I had the raw talent and the raw human being, before the sycophants arrived.

I can't tell the difference between my work life and my private life - it's all the same to me.

If one could drown in the grass, thought Elphie, that might be the best way to die.

Where is your Self to be found? Always in the deepest enchantment that you have experienced.

According to a survey in this week's Time magazine, 85% of Americans think global warming is happening. The other 15% work for the White House.

If you want to be somewhere, you should go to that place and check it out.

To err is human, but to persevere in error is only the act of a fool.

I think most Americans are against illegal surveillance of their emails and telephone calls by the government.

Nothing odd will do long. Tristram Shandy did not last.