You have to starve the Beast. That's one of the most important things about tax cuts. If you leave the money in Washington, it's going to be spent.

If people use common sense and their own guiding moral compass, I think they'll generally stay out of trouble.

There is insufficient support for the police and safety and law enforcement, in general, in the city council.

Traditional marriage between a man and a woman has been a cornerstone of our society for generations. If we are going to change that, it ought to be done by the will of the people.

Too often, they play to whatever group is the loudest down at City Hall, and they buy them off, essentially.

Politics is a contact sport.

The liberals are fighting so hard whenever President Bush appoints any federal judges.

The Senate needs 60 votes to pass anything. They have to compromise with liberal Democrats to spend more money. Even though arguably we have control of the Senate, we really don't.

We've passed an energy bill in the House, to help us be less reliant upon foreign oil so we can get gas prices down. But nothing happens in the Senate.

There's so much mudslinging going on, and people get so turned off by that. It seems like neither party is aware of that. They're too concerned with blasting each other.

Go by your own conscience.

You should never hit the snooze button when life gives you a wake up call.

All the joy the world contains has come through wishing happiness for others. All the misery the world contains has come through wanting pleasure for oneself. Is there need for lengthy explanation?

Everybody has a vocation to some form of life-work. However, behind that call (and deeper than any call), everybody has a vocation to be a person to be fully and deeply human in Christ Jesus.

(Da) "Sorry, Son, what was that? I was too busy ignoring you."(Later) "Sorry, Son, I missed that, " Ma said. "Ignoring you can be a full-time job.

I don't know why you're making the poor girl play with you," Peter said. "You're going to completely slaughter her." "Well, I am the greatest Guitar Hero player of all time," Jack said.

There are always things that I think I wish I could have done better.

When you draw a crowd of people in a street or room or landscape, decide whether you want to say that the people dominate the place or that the place is more important than the people.

I always tell people that my life is in pencil; I have to keep an eraser in my hand because I could always get a call that could change everything.

One way or another, a life without conscience is a failed life.

Old Time the clock-setter.