What is not discussed, will not be advanced.

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.

Hitler [had an] excess of imagination, which very frequently foresaw what would happen but also very often went astray.

Let's not be too tough on our own ignorance. It's the thing that makes America great. If America weren't incomparably ignorant, how could we have tolerated the last eight years?

The rich become richer and the poor become poorer is a cry heard throughout the whole civilized world.

If one swallows a cup of chocolate only three hours after a copious lunch, everything will be perfectly digested and there will still be room for dinner.

If I were asked to name the chief event in my life, I should say my father's library.

I am a little boy but I am going to do something really big in times to come.

Obstacles! Man needs obstacles to get matured!

I considered going to film school; I took a course in film and was very interested in filmmaking as well as film writing.

Every man is the hero of his own song.

For loving draws us more to things than knowing does, since good is found by going to the thing, whereas the true is found when the thing comes to us.