Without Jimmy Carter we might not have gotten Ronald Reagan, without Ronald Reagan there would probably still be a Soviet Union.

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.

You always were a strange child, Alexander, " he said, "but vampires? I can't believe it."I shrugged."Well, now you know where I get my biting sense of humor, " I said weakly.

When I took command in Vietnam, I gave great emphasis to food and medical care - and to the mail.

Any life will seem dramatic if you omit mention of most of it.

I have learned much from disease which life could have never taught me anywhere else.

Mental health and mental balance is critical to leading a healthy life.

I want Apple to continue to innovate. I want them to be on time. I want them to be leaders. And my big concern with Apple recently has been they can't build what they're designing.

Why should there be only one sort of photography? I want to create images with elements of my choosing, narrative or evocative... I give myself a literary frame, I tell a story.

I love hats, shoes, outfits, handbags, and ethnic jewelery.

Plato feels that ethical abstinences and austerities are essential preconditions for the cleansing and opening of the eye of the soul.

I know this one pusher walks around humming a tune and everybody he passes takes it up. He is so grey and spectral and anonymous they don't see him and think it is their own mind humming the tune.