There is no Democratic or Republican way of cleaning the streets.

The Devil is easy to identify. He appears when you're terribly tired and makes a very reasonable request which you know you shouldn't grant.

Only a well-fed, well-housed, well-schooled people can enjoy the blessings of liberty.

It makes no difference if I burn my bridges behind me - I never retreat.

God took the beauty of the Bay of Naples, the Valley of the Nile, the Swiss Alps, the Hudson River Valley, rolled them into one and made San Francisco Bay.

An industry that cannot pay its workers a decent living wage has no right to exist.

Prohibition cannot be enforced for the simple reason that the majority of American people do not want it enforced and are resisting its enforcement.

My generation has failed miserably. We've failed because of lack of courage and vision. It requires more courage to keep the peace than to go to war.

Politics is very much like taxes - everybody is against them, or everybody is for them as long as they don't apply to him

I am certain that the good Lord never intended grapes to be made into grape jelly.

We have had two chickens in every pot, two cars in every garage, and now we have two headaches for every aspirin.

People tend to complicate their own lives, as if living weren't already complicated enough.

If I were to make an uneducated guess about L.A.'s relationship with folk and psychedelia, I would say it must be the weather.

I had a laptop when they weighed 10 pounds.

To think of abstraction as an end in itself is undoubtedly letting oneself be led into a cul-de-sac and can only lead to exhaustion and impotence.

Do we really want another politician in the White House America can't trust?

We are expanded by tears, we are told, not reduced by them.

My mother's a staunch feminist, so I grew up with very strong feminist messages. As a result, I battled her in my teenage years because my image of being a man was a deformed one.

Ignorance is indeed bliss, but it is also dangerous and embarrassing.

History is rarely made by reasonable men.

In Scotland football hooliganism has been met by banning alcohol from grounds but in England this solution has been circumnavigated