There is a long-standing tradition in America of scoffing at poets, especially if they show any interest in politics.

Saying we should keep the two-party system simply because it is working is like saying the Titanic voyage was a success because a few people survived on life-rafts.

An efficient bureaucracy is the greatest threat to liberty.

We do not need presidents who are bigger than the country, but rather ones who speak for it and support it.

As long as the differences and diversities of mankind exist, democracy must allow for compromise, for accommodation, and for the recognition of differences.

This is, I say, the time for all good men not to go to the aid of their party, but to come to the aid of their country.

Vote against anything introduced with a "re" in it, especially reforms, reorganizations, and recodifications. This usually means going back to something that failed once and is likely to do so again.

We don't declare war any more; we declare national defense.

It is dangerous for a national candidate to say things that people might remember.

Whatever is morally necessary must be made politically possible.

The only thing that saves us from bureaucracy is its inefficiency.

Find your niche and occupy it.

Fighting the good fight is not as easy when you’re fighting alone.

Encouragement is the engine of life.

When your whole world is shaken from all the risks we have taken, Dance with me, dance with me into the colors of the dusk.

I am married to Beatrice Salkeld, a painter. We have no children, except me.

The people of America are in agreement in defending their liberties at any cost, and the first line of that defense lies in the protection of economic security.

Gossip. The more you talk about why people do things, the more ideas you have about how the world works.

I like to get that roll and pitch. I really like to take the car out on the highway for a spin.

I came in ["MADtv"] kind of late in the season. Some of the producers didn't want me but the network did. It was all (messed up) from the beginning.

And when love speaks, the voice of all the gods makes Heaven drowsy with the harmony.