I'm beginning to wonder if the symbol of the United States pretty soon isn't going to be an ambassador with a flag under his arm climbing into an escape helicopter.

Without God, democracy cannot and will not long endure.

Live simply, love generously, care deeply, speak kindly, leave the rest to God.

All of us should remember that the federal government is not some mysterious institution comprised of buildings, files and paper. The people are the government. What we create we ought to be able to control.

I told you once that [our marriage] was like an adolescent's dream of what marriage should be like. That hasn't changed.

It's not that liberals aren't smart, it's just that so much of what they know isn't so

What we have found in this country, and maybe we're more aware of it now, is one problem that we've had, even in the best of times, and that is the people who are sleeping on the grates, the homeless, you might say, by choice.