If you join government, calmly make your contribution and move on. Don't go along to get along; do your best and when you have to - and you will - leave, and be something else. |
Let's cause some senators distress. |
Miracles are natural. When they do not occur something has gone wrong. |
More was needed in terms of sending a US military presence into New Orleans. |
Most people aren't appreciated enough, and the bravest things we do in our lives are usually known only to ourselves. No one throws ticker tape on the man who chose to be faithful to his wife, on the lawyer who didn't take the drug money... |
My generation, faced as it grew with a choice between religious belief and existential despair, chose marijuana. Now we are in our Cabernet stage. |
Now he is a statesman, when what he really wants is to be what most reporters are, adult delinquents. |
Part of courage is simple consistency. |
Read good, big important things. |
Remember the waterfront shack with the sign FRESH FISH SOLD HERE. Of course it's fresh, we're on the ocean. Of course it's for sale, we're not giving it away. Of course it's here, otherwise the sign would be someplace else. The final sign: FISH. |
Sincerity and competence is a strong combination. In politics, it is everything. |
Speeches are not magic and there is no great speech without great policy. |
The battle for the mind of Ronald Reagan was like the trench warfare of World War I: never have so many fought so hard for such barren terrain |
The battle for the mind of Ronald Reagan was like the trench warfare of World War I: never have so many fought so hard for such barren terrain |
The Challenger crew was pulling us into the future, and we'll continue to follow them... |