To strip our past of glory is no great loss, but to deny it honor is devastating.

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.

Daniel 12:3 "...and those who turn the many to righteousness will shine the stars forever.

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In China, we are considering ways of resolving our problems by improving our institutions.

The poet is a pretender. / He pretends so completely, / that he even pretends that it is pain / the pain he really feels.

I don't think 'pop' should mean that you had no talent.

Love each other, even strangers. Nothing in the world matters more.

Writers are lampposts and critics are dogs. Ask lampposts what they think about dogs. Does the dog hurt the lamppost?

If we are to believe or accept that buildings are cultural markers, if architects work in a vacuum with their own preconceptions about society, then we won't be creating appropriate cultural markers.

Tell me that you don’t take that blade and drag it across your skin and pray for the courage to press down.

As for discipline and rules, I confess, I've never been good with either.