To me this is the first principle of life, the foundational principle, and a lesson you can't learn at the feet of any wise man: Get up! The art of living is simply getting up after you've been knocked down.

A lucky person gets up in the morning, puts both feet on the floor, knows what they're about to do and thinks it still matters.

If you're in a confined aircraft; when one person sneezes, it goes all the way through the aircraft.

It's presumptuous to say you know how somebody feels.

The change we need is fixing this broken economy from the bottom up.. not tax breaks for the wealthy and huge corporations that ship U.S. jobs overseas. We need to focus on defeating al Qaeda and the Taliban and restoring America's standing in the world.. not an unending commitment in Iraq.

She [Justice Sandra Day O'Connor], unlike, Judge Bork, did not think that being on the court would be an "intellectual feast," to quote Judge [Robert Heron] Bork.

You cannot go to a 7-Eleven or a Dunkin' Donuts unless you have a slight Indian accent.