I strongly believe that crossing the aisle for the good of the American people is more important than party politics.
I have no other view than to promote the public good, and am unambitious of honors not founded in the approbation of my Country.
A book is good company. It is full of conversation without loquacity. It comes to your longing with full instruction, but pursues you never.
If I do a good job, people won't care if I am green or have three heads.
Who among us has the strength to oppose petty egoism, those petty good feelings, pity and remorse?
I haven't been in politics too long so that's a good thing.
In the housing projects, people talked of ways to reduce crime, relieve overcrowding, and they were good ideas that we plan to study, and possibly implement.
In the good old days when I was a senator, I was my own man.
I'm a child of immigrants. That is the history of this country. Immigration is good and important for our country. Legal immigration needs to really be modernized.
Cinema explains American society. It's like a Western, with good guys and bad guys, where the weak don't have a place.
Democrats with a good understanding of the need for strong energy policy in our country, especially in these difficult economic times, recognized the importance of the Keystone XL pipeline.
I cannot in good conscience vote for final passage of legislation that would pave the way to open the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge to oil drilling.
In a polling conducted by the Wall Street Journal, 11 out of 12 Americans said they oppose the taking of private property, even if it is for public economic good.
We need to rediscover the idea of the common good and work together to build a home.
I believe good governments have nothing to hide. We want to ensure we maintain confidence in our public institutions.
I said when I came into office that I don't want to be a great leader; I want to be a good democrat.
I've had the good fortune and blessing to run for the offices for which I really wanted to do the work.
I don't think it's really good once you've lost an election to sit around, watch your former opponent, and swipe at them.
My fundamental interests are to preserve the good name and standing of this Australian Labor Party and to act in the national interest on behalf of the Australian Government.
Well, dissent is the tradition in America, and I've been on the side of dissent a good bit of my career, particularly in the last many years of the Republican Congress.
I am a trial lawyer. Matilda says that at dinner on a good day I sound like an affidavit.
