The only reason the House hasn't done even more damage is that the Senate often sands down the most noxious ideas, making the bills merely bad, not disastrous.

If Franz Kafka were alive today he'd be writing about customer service.

It sometimes takes a while for executives to figure out that the reporters they think of as little bugs to be squashed or spun can be more powerful than they are.

The key to fixing education is better teaching, and the key to better teaching is figuring out who can teach and who can't.

The price of loyalty is incompetence.

Logic can convince but only emotion can motivate.

With his ABC News experience, perhaps Pierre Salinger's next job could be cohosting-with Oliver Stone-a 24-hour Conspiracy Network.

The only thing worse than a silly politician analyzing art is a silly artist analyzing politics

The basic problem is with the business model of journalism. That business model is premised on the idea that talk is cheap and reporting is expensive.

I think it's a terrible system, but money in politics is like water running downhill -- it finds its way.

If it's easy for the government to learn about us, it should be easier for us to learn about the government.

A FAILED RESOLUTION IS NOT THE FAULT OF RESOLUTIONS.

Courage is the grace to act.

A successful radiation researcher must research both radiation and the harmful biological effects of the radiation exposures received by the researcher.

Take short walks in the park down a happy trail.

Ah, tell me not that memory sheds gladness o'er the past, what is recalled by faded flowers, save that they did not last?

Turn thy thoughts now to the consideration of thy life, thy life as a child, as a youth, thy manhood, thy old age, for in these also every change was a death. Is this anything to fear?

If God is, man is a slave; now, man can and must be free; then, God does not exist. I defy anyone whomsoever to avoid this circle; now, therefore, let all choose.

Education opens the door to everything in terms of having a career and an impact on society and not being a slave to your job, really.

There were not so many physical threats that could not be countered with a decent hammer.