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A great speech is literature.
Read good, big important things.
Abortion is either OK or it's not.
Let's cause some senators distress.
Part of courage is simple consistency.
Resentment isn't a magnetic personal style.
By trying to do too much, you risk not doing enough.
Some of the stupidest brilliant people who ever lived.
I was sailing from tedium to apathy with a side trip to torpor.
Humor is the shock absorber of life; it helps us take the blows.
Democracy involves that old-fashioned thing called working it out.
I guess the second-term team is not quite as adoring as the first.
We don't need to 'control' free speech, we need to control ourselves.
Candor is a compliment; it implies equality. It's how true friends talk.
Speeches are not magic and there is no great speech without great policy.
The Democrats often seem like the Not Republican Party, no more and no less.
when men in politics are together, testosterone poisoning makes them insane.
Sincerity and competence is a strong combination. In politics, it is everything.
Boundaries aren't all bad. That's why there are walls around mental institutions.
Morals are concerned with what aids or impedes the fulfillment of basic human needs.
You don't have to be old in America to say of a world you lived in: 'that world is gone.'
TV gives everyone an image, but radio gives birth to a million images in a million brains.
Speeches are more important in politics than talking points, as a rule, and are better remembered.
Don't fall in love with politicians, they're all a disappointment. They can't help it, they just are.
Now he is a statesman, when what he really wants is to be what most reporters are, adult delinquents.
This is the Democratic paradox: You want so much to run America and yet you seem not so fond of Americans.
I think miracles exist in part as gifts and in part as clues that there is something beyond the flat world we see.
The Democratic Party's complete obeisance to [the abortion] lobby makes Democrats look bought, frightened and craven.
Wit penetrates; humor envelops. Wit is a function of verbal intelligence; humor is imagination operating on good nature.
Loyalty consists of many things, including being truthful with our friends. When you really disagree, you have to say so.
Naps are nature's way of reminding you that life is nice, like a beautiful swinging hammock strung between birth and infinity.
The biggest improvement in the flow of information in America in our lifetimes is that no single group controls the news anymore.
But one immediate thing can be done right now, and that is: lower the temperature. Any way you can, and everybody. Just lower it.
[democrats] have become the party of snobs. You have become the party of Americans who think they're better than other Americans.
Politicians, please, think of yourselves! Move to help Terri Schiavo, and no one will be mad at you, and you'll keep a human being alive.
Cynicism is not realistic and tough. It's unrealistic and kind of cowardly because it means you don't have to try. ---in Good Housekeeping
I ought to pray as much as God's on my mind, because then I'd pray a lot. All I can tell you is God is real, and so that infuses everything.
The battle for the mind of Ronald Reagan was like the trench warfare of World War I: never have so many fought so hard for such barren terrain.
My generation, faced as it grew with a choice between religious belief and existential despair, chose marijuana. Now we are in our Cabernet stage.
In ancient Israel and Rome the judge had appeared as a stand-in for the divine, and corruption was a blinding of the representative of the divine.
The core of the concept of a bribe is an inducement improperly influencing the performance of a public function meant to be gratuitously exercised.
I do not know what the Democratic Party spent, in toto, on the 2004 election, but what they seem to have gotten for it is Barack Obama. Let us savor.
Memo to future presidents: Never stake your entire survival on the painful passing of a bad bill. Never take the country down the road to 'Demon Pass.'
There is nothing wrong with being a declared liberal or conservative and conducting a sympathetic interview with a political figure who shares your views.
It's better for the country when each party looks like it stands for something serious, for some big things, but they're not narrow and they're not bought.
Ted Sorrenson, JFK's presidential speech writer, when asked how it came about that he wrote the "ask not what you can do..." speech, he would answer 'ask not.'
A speech is poetry: cadence, rhythm, imagery, sweep! A speech reminds us that words, like children, have the power to make dance the dullest beanbag of a heart.
If you commit a big crime then you are crazy, and the more heinous the crime the crazier you must be. Therefore you are not responsible, and nothing is your fault.
I should say here, because some in Washington like to dream up ways to control the Internet, that we don't need to 'control' free speech, we need to control ourselves.
The first snow always startles. It covers the tricycle in the driveway, turning its frame into an abstact sculpture that says: See how quickly yesterday turns into today.