Politics, like theater, is one of those things where you've got to be wise enough to know when to leave.

Peace is neither the absence of war nor the presence of a disarmament agreement. Peace is a change of heart.

We have been maintaining a standard of living by putting things on the debt of the next generation.

I think we're rapidly approaching the day where medical science can keep people alive in hospitals, hooked up to tubes and things, far beyond when any kind of quality of life is left at all.

I think that retiring the baby boomers is going to be one of the great challenges in America, that you cannot make fiscal sense out of the future of our children without taking on entitlements.

The Democratic Party is not the party of reform.

A nation can't get strong on political pablum.