Fish have got to swim. Birds have got to fly, and Clintons have to run for office. It's what they do. It's a metabolic urge. That's all they've done their entire life is borrow money from rich people to seek public office.

Americans are conservative. What they want to conserve is the New Deal.

Libertarian presidential candidate André Marrou's idea is that "government power is opposed to individual liberty." Must we still debate such sophomoric notions?... Besides, liberty, although very important, is not the only value.

Voters don't decide issues, they decide who will decide issues.

I don't think anyone has ever announced running for president that they want to change the Bill of Rights.

I say statecraft is soulcraft. Just as all education is moral education because learning conditions conduct, most legislation is moral legislations because it conditions the action and the thought of the nation in broad and important spheres in life.

When a politician says the debate is over, you can be sure of two things; the debate is raging; and he's losing it.