We've removed the ceiling above our dreams. There are no more impossible dreams.
It is one of the blessings of this world that few people see visions and dream dreams.
It is horrifying that we have to fight our own government to save the environment.
I think the government has to reposition environment on top of their national and international priorities.
More countries have understood that women's equality is a prerequisite for development.
The blurring of fact and fiction has great commercial potential, which is bound to be corrupting in historical terms.
The great achievement of the Catholic Church lay in harmonizing, civilizing the deepest impulses of ordinary, ignorant people.
Pop changes week to week, month to month. But great music is like literature.
I enjoy talking about politics a great deal.
All you need for happiness is a good gun, a good horse, and a good wife.
No person is ever good for much, that hasn't been swept off their feet by enthusiasm between ages twenty and thirty.
We are very near the end, but have not and will not lose our good cheer.
The good thing about flying solo is it's never boring.
If you would have a good wife, marry one who has been a good daughter.
Iris Murdoch did influence my early novels very much, and influence is never entirely good.
Why cannot we correct the baneful passions, without weakening the good?
Net neutrality isn't a government takeover of the Internet, as many of my Republican colleagues have alleged.
In government as well as in trade a new era came to the colonies in 1763.
It is to be regretted that the rich and powerful too often bend the acts of government to their own selfish purposes.
If I was afraid of being killed, I would never speak out against the government.
If we have any problems, it's always with the government of the United States.