The income tax created more criminals than any other single act of government.

Small men, seeking great wealth or power, have too often and too long turned even the highest levels of public service into mere personal opportunity.

While I am a great believer in the free enterprise system and all that it entails, I am an even stronger believer in the right of our people to live in a clean and pollution-free environment.

Hubert Humphrey talks so fast that listening to him is like trying to read Playboy magazine with your wife turning the pages.

A woman has a right to an abortion. That's a decision that's up to the pregnant woman, not up to the pope or some do-gooders or the Religious Right.

The Republicans have a positive talent for self-destruction.

By maintaining the separation of church and state, the United States has avoided the intolerance which has so divided the rest of the world with religious wars.

I've always said I have nothing against a woman doing anything a man can do as long as she gets home in time to cook dinner.

I do not undertake to promote welfare, for I propose to extend freedom. My aim is not to pass laws but to repeal them.

Where is the politician who has not promised to fight to the death for lower taxes- and who has not proceeded to vote for the very spending projects that make tax cuts impossible?

The fellow has absolutely no principles."Money and gall" is all he has.

Where lipstick is concerned, the important thing is not color, but to accept God's final word on where your lips end.

Life is a land of opportunity to love, live, and enjoy beauty.

Beauty is sometimes born of pain

George Bush made a mistake when he referred to the Saddam Hussein regime as 'evil.' Every liberal and leftist knows how to titter at such black-and-white moral absolutism.

I was so nervous to turn 40, but the last year and a half has been the most fun I have ever had.

If it's peace you find in dying, well then let the time be near.

I don't write poems and put them to music. Just let things flow.

I did what I knew.. when I knew better, I did better

You either get free stuff or you get freedom. You cannot have both and you need to make a choice.

You always succeed in producing a result.