The mood of the 80s - Get what you can, can what you get, and sit on the can.

Nobody ever says to men, how can you be a Congressman and a father.

When men talk about defense, they always claim to be protecting women and children, but they never ask the women and children what they think.

Big money tries to purchase its own agenda. Money does too much talking in Washington. Every senator, every representative, even the president awakens each morning with a number in his head that will drive the whole day. The number is the amount of money that must [be] raised that day for his reelection. If he fails, the next day's number will be even higher.

There is an ancient Indian saying: "We do not inherit the earth from our ancestors; we borrow it from our children." If we use this ethic as a moral compass, then our rendezvous with reality can also become a rendezvous with opportunity.

We have to tell the American public that they're missing the boat, that they have to get into writing and reading. Not only that, but books won't crash in the year 2000.

Japan redefined world power. They showed you could become a world power without having a military.