Middle age is when you're faced with two temptations and you choose the one that will get you home by nine o'clock.

Has anyone stopped to consider that we might come closer to balancing the budget if all of us simply tried to live up to the Ten Commandments and the Golden Rule?

I'm not a politician by profession. I am a citizen who decided I had to be personally involved.

They are our brothers, these freedom fighters.... They are the moral equal of our Founding Fathers and the brave men and women of the French Resistance. We cannot turn away from them, for the struggle here is not right versus left; it is right versus wrong.

Perhaps we need some outside, universal threat to make us recognize this common bond. I occasionally think how quickly our differences worldwide would vanish if we were facing an alien threat from outside this world.

I am not worried about the deficit. It is big enough to take care of itself.

We must act today in order to preserve tomorrow