The essence of good taste is a sense of values, and a sense of values is the pivotal point of good living.

We must have government, but we must watch them like a hawk.

You may never reach a solution, but you're never absolved from the responsibility of trying.

Never feel self-pity, the most destructive emotion there is. How awful to caught up in the terrible squirrel cage of self.

The money that is spent in elections is absolutely unconscionable - even if it's private money. It's true that one's not corrupted by the expenditure of one's own money, but to some extent the system is. We cannot have a system in which the only people you can count on for a vote that doesn't look as though it might be a vote for a special-interest group are people with enormous fortunes.

If there is one thing the past years have taught us, it is the importance of a keen and high sense of honor in those who handle our governmental affairs.

Party organization matters. When the door of a smoke-filled room is closed, there's hardly ever a woman inside.