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Hate sells.
Debates are boring.
My parents were immigrants.
I have no plans, and no plans to plan.
I wish I were as good a man as my son is.
You want calamities? What about the Ice Age?
You campaign in poetry. You govern in prose.
I have no quarrel with people seeing me as a sinner.
People asked me what I want as an epitaph: 'He tried'
Organized belief in spirituality - that's what a religion is.
The Mafia is a question every time an Italian raises his head.
I love immigrants. Legal, illegal - they're not to be despised.
Democracy is not meant to be efficient, it is meant to be fair.
Nobody has ever gotten a bigger push than Bill Clinton gave to Obama.
There's something about rhetorical violence that is ugly and worrying.
The Catholic Church did not always teach that life begins at conception.
I said I didn't want to run for president. I didn't ask you to believe me.
We Democrats still have a dream. We still believe in this nation's future.
Lincoln had bad press, too. He wasn't appreciated until after he was gone.
Sometimes comforting the afflicted does require afflicting the comfortable.
A judge can manipulate the law. A smart lawyer can keep a killer out of jail.
We are disgusted by the things that we desire, and we desire what disgusts us.
Bill Clinton has done more to help the middle class than any leader in decades.
I went to electric razors so I would not have to look at myself in the morning.
You can't ever make serious progress against terrorism unless you deal with Israel.
Every time I've done something that doesn't feel right, it's ended up not being right.
We believe in only the government we need, but we insist on all the government we need.
Every minute brings a new opportunity. Every minute brings new growth, new experiences.
I am a trial lawyer. Matilda says that at dinner on a good day I sound like an affidavit.
You want calamities? What about the Ice Age? God made this world, but didn't complete it.
I somehow got this reputation of diddling and dithering. I don't remember dithering at all.
It is not a government's obligation to provide services, but to see that they are provided.
I will take a draft to the Yankees or to the Mets. A draft for president is not conceivable.
The problem is that you can't impose the church's teachings on all Americans as a matter of law.
I was badly mauled by people in New York State for being against the death penalty for 12 years.
Decide exactly what you want to achieve. Do you want to help people, or do you want to be powerful?
If I made a mistake in terms of running for president, the mistake was not in refusing to run in '91.
For too many, the dream of economic mobility has been replaced with a nightmare of economic stagnation.
California is an unusual and electric kind of state - it's wonderful. All sorts of things happen there.
The price of seeking to force our beliefs on others is that someday they might force their beliefs on us.
There are only two rules for being successful: one, figure out exactly what you want to do, and two, do it.
There are only two rules for being successful. One, figure out exactly what you want to do, and two, do it.
For me to make lasagna would be a desecration of a great Italian dish. . . . I don't mess with sacred things.
I talk and talk and talk, and I haven't taught people in 50 years what my father taught by example in one week.
What I didn't do was pick one thing and keep saying it over and over again, so I could have gotten credit for it.
I concentrated on a lot of things, so very few people saw me as an education governor, an infrastructure governor.
I don't ever recall having a political argument with Bob Grant. I've known him a long time. I've always liked him.
I talk and talk and talk, and I haven't taught people in fifty years what my father taught me by example in one week.
Religion is extremely important in this democracy - so important that it occupies a prime position in the Bill of Rights.
Entertainers and sports figures achieve fame and wealth but find the world empty and dull without the solace and stimulation of drugs.