The most important thing is that Milosevic agreed to sit at the negotiating table with the Kosovo Albanians

A total of 1,580 people, the civilian population, suffered as a result of the bloody wave of terrorist acts that swept over Moscow and other towns and villages of our country.

You can build a throne with bayonets, but it's difficult to sit on it.

Gorbachev gave us freedom of worship and freedom of speech and freedom to see what was going on and freedom to vote, but that freedom won't last unless it is underpinned by economic freedom.

It is especially important to encourage unorthodox thinking when the situation is critical

A man must live like a great brilliant flame and burn as brightly as he can. In the end he burns out. But this is far better than a mean little flame.

Let's not talk about Communism. Communism was just and idea, just pie in the sky.

We don't appreciate what we have until it's gone. Freedom is like that. It's like air. When you have it, you don't notice it.

Liberty sets the mind free, fosters independence and unorthodox thinking and ideas. But it does not offer instant prosperity or happiness and wealth to everyone.

Money, big money (which is actually a relative concept) is always, under any circumstances, a seduction, a test of morals, a temptation to sin.

A politician must have some scruples, a certain decency; he cannot smear himself in the mud for the sake of a high ideal.

He has got no good red blood in his body, " said Sir James."No. Somebody put a drop under a magnifying glass, and it was all semicolons and parentheses, " said Mrs. Cadwallader.

Life is full of beauty. Notice it.

I've consistently said, we need to support charter schools. I think it is important to experiment, by looking at how we can reward excellence in the classroom.

Serving in Congress is like having a second shot at high school.

I find myself moved by social justice issues. I'm not sure where that will lead me. I'm willing to nurture it.

I cannot say whether things will get better if we change; what I can say is they must change if they are to get better.

You won't build relationships unless you let your guard down

God created, Linnaeus ordered.

Beauty is the radiance of truth, and the frangrance of goodness.

Success is like pumping an old well handle. You have to pump a very long time before you get water. But don't give up or you will have to start all over again.