We have far more to fear from swift than from torpid government.

Baseball, it is said, is only a game. True. And the Grand Canyon is only a hole in Arizona. Not all holes, or games, are created equal.

Some parents say it is toy guns that make boys warlike. But give a boy a rubber duck and he will seize its neck like the butt of a pistol and shout 'Bang!'

Americans are overreaching; overreaching is the most admirable and most American of the many American excesses.

The pursuit of perfection often impedes improvement.

Ronald Reagan has held the two most demeaning jobs in the country; President of the United States and radio broadcaster for the Chicago Cubs.

The unpleasant sound Bush is emitting as he traipses from one conservative gathering to another is a thin, tinny "arf" - the sound of a lap dog.

Sports is a moral undertaking because it requires of participants, and it schools spectators in the appreciation of, noble things - courage, grace under pressure, sportsmanship.

A politician's words reveal less about what he thinks about his subject than what he thinks about his audience.

A society that thinks the choice between ways of living is just a choice between equally eligible 'lifestyles' turns universities into academic cafeterias offering junk food for the mind.

Donald Trump is redundant evidence that if your net worth is high enough, your IQ can be very low and you can still intrude into American politics.

You shouldn’t ask a question until you are sure you want to hear the answer.

Salman is genuinely a nice man who helps people. He is someone who I trust blindly. I think he has been an important person in my life.

I'm interested in current affairs and social policy as a whole, but I don't watch politics for sport.

Nothing was ever accomplished by anyone who said 'It can't be done.'

The more we have received in silence, the more we give in action.

The secret of rulership is to combine a belief in one’s own infallibility with a power to learn from past mistakes.

There was never any effort made out there to improve the artist.

I did not criticize the Central Bank's position.

My mother refused to let me fail. So I insisted.