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Part of courage is simple consistency.

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What do you think of your job as? What service are you performing in society? What’s the point of what you do?

What conservatives and Republicans must recognize is that the White House has broken with them. What President Bush is doing, and has been doing for some time, is sundering a great political coalition.

Where you falter, alter.

Let’s cause some senators distress.

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.

Some of the stupidest brilliant people who ever lived.

At some point, don’t voters start to see all of public life as one big polluted river? And if they do, don’t they stop saying things like “That’s a busted tire floating by” and “That’s an old shoe”?

The 2008 election settled nothing, not even for a while. Our national politics are reflecting what appears to be going on geologically, on the bottom of the oceans and beneath the crust of the Earth: the tectonic plates are moving.

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.

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.

The Democrats often seem like the Not Republican Party, no more and no less.

Morals are concerned with what aids or impedes the fulfillment of basic human needs.

Loyalty consists of many things, including being truthful with our friends. When you really disagree, you have to say so.

The Democratic Party will now stick with its guy forever, no matter how harmful he is. Perhaps you call that loyalty, and perhaps there’s something to it, but a bigger part, I believe, is that you have come to think that winning is everything-that victory is the purpose of politics.

Resentment isn’t a magnetic personal style.

I guess the second-term team is not quite as adoring as the first.

Beware the politically obsessed. They are often bright and interesting, but they have something missing in their natures; there is a hole, an empty place, and they use politics to fill it up. It leaves them somehow misshapen.

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.

Read good, big important things.

The core of the concept of a bribe is an inducement improperly influencing the performance of a public function meant to be gratuitously exercised.

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.

Naps are nature’s way of reminding you that life is nice, like a beautiful swinging hammock strung between birth and infinity.

When everyone in America knows you’re in a dreadful position, admit you’re in a dreadful position. Don’t lie about it and make them roll their eyes, tell the truth and make them blink.

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 Irish are often nervous about having the appropriate face for the occasion. They have to be happy at weddings, which is a strain, so they get depressed; they have to be sad at funerals, which is easy, so they get happy.

If you join government, calmly make your contribution and move on. Don’t go along to get along; do your best and when you have to – and you will – leave, and be something else.

The biggest improvement in the flow of information in America in our lifetimes is that no single group controls the news anymore.

What is in the air there in Washington, what is in the water? What is wrong with them? This is not a rhetorical question. I think it is unspoken question No.1 as Americans look at so many of the individuals in our government. What is wrong with them?

You don’t have to be old in America to say of a world you lived in: ‘that world is gone.’

Now he is a statesman, when what he really wants is to be what most reporters are, adult delinquents.

I think miracles exist in part as gifts and in part as clues that there is something beyond the flat world we see.

My generation, faced as it grew with a choice between religious belief and existential despair, chose marijuana. Now we are in our Cabernet stage.

Here is an old tradition badly in need of return: You have to earn your way into politics. You should go have a life, build a string of accomplishments, then enter public service...

Sincerity and competence is a strong combination. In politics, it is everything.

Speeches are more important in politics than talking points, as a rule, and are better remembered.

The Democratic Party is that amazing thing, out of power for six years and yet exhausted. They’re pale, tired, and unready. Too bad, since it’s their job to be an alternative, not an embarrassment.

The biggest political change in my lifetime is that Americans no longer assume that their children will have it better than they did. This is a huge break with the past, with assumptions and traditions that shaped us.

Abortion is either OK or it’s not.

This is the Democratic paradox: You want so much to run America and yet you seem not so fond of Americans.

We are all afraid. That’s the thing that unites all truly successful people: fear, fear of failing, fear of criticism, fear of letting down the team in some way. That why they try so hard, that’s why they pay attention to detail and try to get every possible duck in a row. It’s fear.

Most people aren’t appreciated enough, and the bravest things we do in our lives are usually known only to ourselves. No one throws ticker tape on the man who chose to be faithful to his wife, on the lawyer who didn’t take the drug money...

Speeches are not magic and there is no great speech without great policy.

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.

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.

I love eulogies. They are the most moving kind of speech because they attempt to pluck meaning from the fog, and on short order, when the emotions are still ragged and raw and susceptible to leaps.

Don’t fall in love with politicians, they’re all a disappointment. They can’t help it, they just are.

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.

Boundaries aren’t all bad. That’s why there are walls around mental institutions.

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