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Secrecy is for losers.
The status quo is working.
As the family goes, so go the children.
The Lord looks after drunks and Americans.
What is not discussed, will not be advanced.
There are some mistakes only someone with a Ph.D. can make.
We have the right to our own opinions, but not our own facts.
Everyone is entitled to his own opinion, but not his own facts.
The issue of race could benefit from a period of benign neglect.
It has proved politically wiser to set goals than to start programs.
To be Irish is to know that in the end the world will break your heart.
Things become complicated if there are enough people to complexify them.
A responsible government does not triple the national debt in eight years.
If you don't have 30 years to devote to social policy, don't get involved.
You are entitled to your opinion. But you are not entitled to your own facts.
The liberal left can be as rigid and destructive as any force in American life.
No one is innocent after the experience of governing. But not everyone is guilty.
To strip our past of glory is no great loss, but to deny it honor is devastating.
The atmosphere in which social legislation is considered is not a friend of truth.
The American Constitution was designed to make it hard to have too much government.
The principle of not negotiating with terrorists is the only thing we can hold on to.
The world's largest debtor is a distinction of sorts, but not the one we like having.
I can live with the robber barons, but how do you live with these pathological radicals?
The richest inheritance any child can have is a stable, loving, disciplined family life.
People who pierce the veil of money rarely return with their faculties altogether intact.
Secrecy is for losers. For people who do not know how important the information really is.
If we get into the mind-set where the good becomes the enemy of the best, we will get nothing.
The single most exciting thing you encounter in government is competence, because it's so rare.
At the heart of the deterioration of the fabric of the Negro society is the deterioration of the Negro family.
Stubborn opposition to proposals often has no other basis than the complaining question, 'Why wasn't I consulted?'
I come from a part of the world - raised in a part of the world where you're born a Democrat, baptized a Democrat.
If the newspapers of a country are filled with good news, the jails of that country will be filled with good people.
We used to play marbles for keeps. If you lost, you lost. It is the same way with politics, but not everybody knows this.
The United States in the 1980s may be the first society in history in which children are distinctly worse off than adults.
Citizen participation is a device whereby public officials induce nonpublic individuals to act in a way the officials desire.
Irresponsibility breeds irresponsibility. The finances of government are so central. You'd think that would be pretty obvious.
Pandaemonium was inhabited by creatures quite convinved that the great Satan had their best interests at heart. Poor little devils.
When a person goes to a country and finds their newspapers filled with nothing but good news, he can bet there are good men in jail.
The principal objective of American government at every level should be to see that children are born into intact families and that they remain so.
In too many cases, if our Government had set out determined to destroy the family, it couldn't have done greater damage than some of what we see today.
At 14 you are still in most respects a dependent youth, in some respects a child. At 24 you are an adult. In between, extraordinary turbulences take place.
We have to ask if it is once again the summer of 1914. Small acts of terror in the Middle East, in South Asia, could lead to cataclysm as they did in Sarajevo.
We've come full circle but the best remains the heart of the city, the greatest center of the greatest city, our Acropolis, where our Christmas tree is lighted.
The great corporations of this country were not founded by ordinary people. They were founded by people with extraordinary intelligence, ambition, and aggressiveness.
The steady expansion of welfare programs can be taken as a measure of the steady disintegration of the Negro family structure over the past generation in the United States.
I was more in opposition within my own party, and for a long while, I was part of the opposition. I had - Scoop Jackson was my candidate in '76. I made no bones about that.
Welfare became a term of opprobrium - a contentious, often vindictive area of political conflict in which liberals and conservatives clashed and children were lost sight of.
I'm a Democrat, and there are an important group of things only the government can do. But let us be clear that for most of the world, what they most need is less government.
Somehow liberals have been unable to acquire from life what conservatives seem to be endowed with at birth: namely, a healthy skepticism of the powers of government agencies to do good.
Marriage orients men and women toward the future, asking them not just to commit to each other but to plan, to earn, to save, and to devote themselves to advancing their children's prospects.