“Those who travel the high road of humility are not troubled by heavy traffic.”

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.

And in [my] view it is just as likely that the discrimination we found has always been there, or that it is spurious, as that IRCA has caused it.’

Nonetheless, GAO’s conclusion that employer sanctions had somehow caused employment discrimination was contradicted by GAO’s own Chief of Methodology, who criticized the GAO report.

A crown is a heavy thing to wear.

I sound the same regardless if I’m 20 pounds heavier or 20 pounds light, and I think that’s the key thing with my fans and why they continue to be loyal because I’m that type of person.

He had that rare weird electricity about him – that extremely wild and heavy presence that you only see in a person who has abandoned all hope of ever behaving normally.

Stock-picking is like gambling: those who win well, seldom bet, but when they do, they bet heavily.

I find it easier to write in these little vignettes; if I try to get any more heavy, I find myself out of my league.

I’m very shy. That’s probably one of the reasons I got so heavily into drugs.

Kant’s style is so heavy that after his pure reason, the reader longs for unreasonableness.

Usually one gets a heavier cross when one attempts to get rid of an old one.