There are some mistakes only someone with a Ph.D. can make.

You are entitled to your opinion. But you are not entitled to your own facts.

To be Irish is to know that in the end the world will break your heart.

The single most exciting thing you encounter in government is competence, because it's so rare.

Somehow liberals have been unable to acquire from life what conservatives seem to be endowed with at birth: namely, a healthy skepticism of the powers of government agencies to do good.

Marriage orients men and women toward the future, asking them not just to commit to each other but to plan, to earn, to save, and to devote themselves to advancing their children's prospects.

The steady expansion of welfare programs can be taken as a measure of the steady disintegration of the Negro family structure over the past generation in the United States.

I'm a Democrat, and there are an important group of things only the government can do. But let us be clear that for most of the world, what they most need is less government.

If the newspapers of a country are filled with good news, the jails of that country will be filled with good people.

I can live with the robber barons, but how do you live with these pathological radicals?

The principal objective of American government at every level should be to see that children are born into intact families and that they remain so.

Nobody asks to be a hero, it just sometimes turns out that way.

If you laugh, think, and cry; that's a full day.

New York is the true City of Light in any season.

I'm fed up with Britain being condemned to this future where we borrow the Chinese in order to buy from the Chinese the things that they make for us.

To have no vision of your own means living the vision of someone else.

He who does not understand the supreme certainty of mathematics is wallowing in confusion.

The practice of employing metaphor and image and composition and linguistic choices to move the reader through the content.

Souls bound together can't be forever torn apart by distance and neither by death.

I gave you a wrist watch, baby, and you wouldn't even give me the time of day.

American style is about confidence, independence, diversity and free expression.