The duty of a politician for me is to be a representative: a politician is not an expert, experts are experts, hired for their expertise and so on.

What if the way we perceive a problem is already part of the problem?

Words are never 'only words'; they matter because they define the contours of what we can do.

If you have reasons to love someone, you don’t love them.

The threat today is not passivity, but pseudo-activity, the urge to "be active", to "participate", to mask the Nothingness of what goes on.

I already am eating from the trash can all the time. The name of this trash can is ideology. The material force of ideology makes me not see what I am effectively eating.

We feel free because we lack the very language to articulate our unfreedom.

Love feels like a great misfortune, a monstrous parasite, a permanent state of emergency that ruins all small pleasures.

Atheism is not the denial of the existence of God, but having doubts as to whether God is conscious.

Thinking begins when you ask really difficult questions.

The problem for us is not are our desires satisfied or not. The problem is how do we know what we desire.

Music is the art of thinking with sounds.

You don't feel thirty percent smarter when the stock goes up by thirty percent so when the stock goes down you shouldn't feel thirty percent dumber" Jeff Bezos

Democrats are afraid of polls. Republicans aren't afraid of polls. Republicans make polls. Democrats run from polls.

I'm an honest, hardworking conservative leader who will stand up to Washington and fight for Nebraska.

It is part of our inheritance to be, above all, secure and confident in the will of God.

Absorb knowledge from every possible source and opportunity. Power gravitates to the man who knows how and why.

By pursuing the things you love, all the other things in life will fall into order.

There is no democracy without socialism, and no socialism without democracy.

If all you can do is crawl, start crawling.

I pride myself on being consistent. So, yes, it definitely means something, even though I don't set goals.