When I have to choose between voting for the people or the special interests, I always stick with the special interests. They remember. The people forget.

A speech is entertaining only when serenely detached from all information.

Silence is the best substitute for brains ever invented.

Politics is like roller skating. You go partly where you want to go, and partly where the damn things take you.

It is still an open question as to whether mankind or insects shall ultimately inherit the earth. It is my opinion that mankind ... has about a 50-50 chance...

I could throw 56-pound words clear across the Grand Canyon. As a matter of course, I went into politics.

No man is fit to be a Senator...unless he is willing to surrender his political life for great principle.

It is the strongest, not the prettiest birds that conquer the sky.

Love may start out as a good feeling, but to love someone long-term is an act of the will.

Great feelings take with them their own universe, splendid or abject. They light up with their passion an exclusive world in which they recognize their climate.

The social body persists although the component cells may change.

What I have said to people is that I've lived the American dream, because I have.

I forgive myself for not being perfect. I am living the very best way I know how.

Any view of things that is not strange, is false.

The things one feels absolutely certain about are never true. That is the fatality of faith, and the lesson of romance.

The purpose of science is not to cure us of our sense of mystery and wonder, but to constantly reinvent and reinvigorate it.

The target for a retracement following a fifth wave often is doubly indicated by the end of the preceding fourth wave and the 382 retracement point.