books are brain food. If every American would purchase the equivalent of his weight in books each year, this country would be a different place.

I have a brain and a uterus, and I use both.

The paranoid fear of government is an extremist position, and every one of us ought to say that

Government has become a machine that runs only when gold coins are inserted.

The Pledge of Allegiance says "...with liberty and justice for all." What part of "all" don't you understand?

[When asked, as a prospective Presidential candidate, whether she had ever committed adultery:] No. But then most congresswomen don't have 25-year-old lifeguards throwing themselves at their feet around this place.

You can't wring your hands and roll up your sleeves at the same time.