Morituri non cognant, perhaps. Those who are about to die — just don't know.

There are two kinds of people: the ones who need to be told and the ones who figure it out all by themselves.

Colleges typically did not tell you that ninety percent of your education came after you hung the parchment on the wall. People might ask for a rebate.

The general difference between conservatives and liberals is that liberals like pretty pictures and conservatives like to build bridges that people can drive across.

Surviving is much more painful than death.

About forty percent of the people vote Democrat. About forty percent vote Republican. Of those eighty percent, most wouldn't change their votes if Adolf Hitler was running against Abe Lincoln - or against FDR. . . . That leaves twenty percent of the people who swing back one way or another . . . the true independents. . . . That twenty percent controls the destiny of the country.

Probably what pushed the Russians over the edge was SDI... They realized they couldn't beat us...