Universal coverage, not medical technology, is the foundation of any caring health care system.

Christmas is the time when kids tell Santa what they want and adults pay for it. Deficits are when adults tell government what they want and their kids pay for it.

America does not need another political campaign based on denial and avoidance of some of our real problems. It needs a crusade to reform and renew our country, its institutions and political system.

I think that retiring the baby boomers is going to be one of the great challenges in America, that you cannot make fiscal sense out of the future of our children without taking on entitlements.

Peace is neither the absence of war nor the presence of a disarmament agreement. Peace is a change of heart.

All we know about the new economic world is that nations which train engineers will prevail over those which train lawyers. No nation has ever sued its way to greatness.

Politics is a love-hate relationship. I sure know that.

Amnesty is a big billboard, a flashing billboard, to the rest of the world that we don't really mean our immigration law.

You know, 600,000 millionaires get a Social Security check every month. I think there's enough waste and inefficiency.

Politics, like theater, is one of those things where you've got to be wise enough to know when to leave.

To me, the failure of liberalism - the tradition I come from - was not recognizing there has to be justice across the generations.

Ignorance breeds monsters to fill up the vacancies of the soul that are unoccupied by the verities of knowledge.

[S]hame is a child of custom rather than of nature.

If we don't currently have what we so desire, then we must become a different person. Beliefs and thought patterns is the road to victory.

My heart leaps up when I behold a rainbow in the sky.

My definition of a sport is that it's a physical activity that involves competition. Since bodybuilders certainly train and then compete, we are certainly a sport.

Some 70 percent of Americans donated to Katrina victims.

Moral issues are always terribly complex for someone without principles.

I guess we'd be living in a boring, perfect world if everybody wished everybody else well.

No one can manipulate anyone else. In any relationship, both parties know what they're doing. even if one complains later on that they were used.

My father was very big on marriage.