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

I had always believed government was not a fungus: It could survive in sunshine.

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.

When it comes to college education, American families are paying more and getting less.

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.

[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.

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.