“An educated man is thoroughly inoculated against humbug, thinks for himself and tries to give his thoughts, in speech or on paper, some style.”

We have two political parties in this country, the Stupid Party and the Evil Party. I belong to the Stupid Party.

It doesn’t matter is you call it ‘Obama-care’ or ‘Elvis Presley care’ or ‘I-don’t-care care.’ It cannot sustain itself in its present form.

Reagan didn’t put anything off the table, if he felt it was for the good of the American people to tweak the tax system.

In your country club, your church, and business, about fifteen percent of the people are screwballs, lightweights, and boobs, and you would not want those people unrepresented in Congress.

If you have integrity, nothing else matters. If you don’t have integrity, nothing else matters.

There is no “slippery slope” toward loss of liberty, only a long staircase where each step down must first be tolerated by the American people and their leaders.

Here is what she said, ‘I believe the truth is that we have no strong causal link between IRCA and discrimination.

Grandchildren now don’t write a thank you for the Christmas presents.

If you torture statistics long enough, they’ll eventually confess the truth

Every time one of us starts talking about more effective immigration controls, somebody else throws up the Statue of Liberty, how we’re a nation of immigrants and all of that.

The debate takes on tinges of racism, emotion.

Any education that matters is liberal. All the saving truths, all the healing graces that distinguish a good education from a bad one or a full education from a half empty one are contained in that word.

A society like ours, which professes no one religion and has allowed all religions to decay, which indulges freedom to the point of license and individualism to the point of anarchy, needs all the support that responsible, cultivated homes can furnish. I hope your generation will provide a firmer shelter for civilized standards.

I consider abortion to be a deeply personal and intimate issue for women and I don’t believe male legislators should even vote on the issue.

I think it is embarrassing to all of us who truly know the mission of the Refugee Act.

There are three days that are really slow for restaurants – Thanksgiving, Christmas and Easter.

Many people don’t understand ring control. They think they do until they’re against someone who really understands how to set traps, how to create holes in the octagon that they fall into.

To me, atonality is against nature. There is a center to everything that exists.

It goes against the grain of modern education to teach children to program.

I had a hard time treating my field as if it’s horse racing, putting actors in competition against each other.

There’s only one thing you can use against pure logic, and that’s common sense.

Personally I am very much against the death penalty for several reasons.

In the deserted harbour there is yet water that laps against the quays. In the dark and silent forest, there is a leaf that falls.

To get the medium’s magic to work for one’s aims rather than against them is to attain literacy.