“This is not a coincidence. This is not a coincidence. And with all due respect, I am here to tell you it does not take a village to raise a child. It takes a family to raise a child.”

Inspiration does not come like a blot, nor is it kinetic energy striving, but it comes to us slowly and quietly all the time.

Having a disability changes your whole life, not just your attitude.

You read what Disraeli had to say. I don’t remember what he said. He said something. He’s no longer with us.

I’m not a Gingrich fan. He’s just difficult to work with. It’s either Newt’s way or the highway.

If something happened along the route and you had to leave your children with Bob Dole or Bill Clinton, I think you would probably leave them with Bob Dole.

I think the voters believe that when you become president of the United States, you have a higher obligation and a higher standard than anybody in the world. And if you violate that standard, they’re going to remember it on election day.

President Obama came to visit me in the hospital. He said, ‘I wish you were still in the Senate; I need your help.’ I’m not certain I can help on everything. Maybe some things.

When these political action committees give money, they expect something in return other than good government.

There they are. See no evil, hear no evil, and…evil.

I lost in ’96, in case the word hadn’t trickled out, and so I made a few commercials.

Elizabeth’s back at the Red Cross, and I’m walking the dog.

I don’t know how many people run for vice president and president and lose both.

The difference between possible and impossible is hard work and commitment.

No more verbally incomprehensible no more devoid of the vision thing and no more the cautious pragmatist proudly displaying the virtues of tradition and the advantages of biological seniority.

I think it’s OK to talk about your military service, but there’s a fine line between, you know, too much and just about right.

Yet when the blood of the sons of immigrants and the grandsons of slaves fell on foreign fields, it was American blood.

The only time my records are going to be broken is by my own spawn. I’m going be training that child out the womb.

Each child is biologically required to have a mother. Fatherhood is a well-regarded theory, but motherhood is a fact.

I must take issue with the term ‘a mere child’, for it has been my invariable experience that the company of a mere child is infinitely preferable to that of a mere adult.

Maturity – among other things, the unclouded happiness of the child at play, who takes it for granted that he is at one with his play-mates.

If you are truly serious abut preparing your child for the future, don’t teach him to subtract teach him to deduct.

Cry, the beloved country, for the unborn child that is the inheritor of our fear. Let him not love the earth too deeply… For fear will rob him of all if he gives too much.

Cry, the beloved country, for the unborn child that’s the inheritor of our fear.

I was rather a goody-goody as a child… It was only later on I discovered that you could be naughty and get away with it.