When a court goes too far, it actually weakens our respect for judicial institutions.

One morning, just like 9/11, there's going to be a disaster. I have yet to see the United Nations do anything effective with either Iran or North Korea.

The idea that a congressman would be tainted by accepting money from private industry or private sources is essentially a socialist argument.

Perseverance is the hard work you do after you get tired of doing the hard work you already did.

All unemployment compensation should be tied to a job training requirement. Now the fact is, 99 weeks is an associate degree.

President Obama has created at least three jobs that I know of - Bob McDonnell, Chris Christie, and Scott Brown.

It may just be because I get homesick, but I have concluded Washington's cherry blossoms are just plain overrated.

I don't see how the party that says it's the party of the family is going to adopt an immigration policy which destroys families that have been here a quarter century.

I'm not a natural leader. I'm too intellectual; I'm too abstract; I think too much.

If Thomas Edison invented electric light today, Dan Rather would report it on CBS News as, 'Candle-making industry threatened'.

The most important social welfare program in America is a job.

The message of Christmas is a message of hope when all other such messages created by men can do nothing more than be hopeful.

...we're not eighteen anymore. We've lived. We've created things that last – things of joy, and things of burden.

Watch for subjects as you go but the city or the country. Keep your eyes and ears open, and you will hear and see angels.

The young man knows the rules but the old man knows the exceptions.

I love Billy Joel. I cry sometimes when I hear 'The Stranger.' 'You May Be Right' may be one of the greatest songs ever written.

Vermouth always makes me brilliant unless it makes me idiotic.

I just elbowed the pretty blonde he'd been speaking to aside and slapped my panties on his chest. "As soon as I saw you", I purred, "I knew I wouldn't be needing these"!

I come from a family of great readers and storytellers.

The difference between that which is humane and that which is patriotic is a vital difference.