I have to tell you I never in my life anticipated getting this old, this fast. It seems as if I were 25 just a few days ago.

I am about to vote. I am about to do something that human beings are rarely allowed to do. I am doing something that did not exist until America.

Jump into the middle of things, get your hands dirty, fall flat on your face, and then reach for the stars.

I think a snob would be a person who thinks he is entitled; he has good things in his life and is entitled to them.

Could Congress really do its work if it held its sessions by teleconferencing? Could the Supreme Court? Nothing can replace the spark of intelligence that travels from person to person at meetings.

Fathom the hypocrisy of a government that requires every citizen to prove they are insured... But not everyone must prove they are a citizen.

My 'thing' is that I just lie in my immense bed and look out the window at the skyline over Virginia and the sky and the airplanes coming into Reagan. I really love doing that.