Real love isn't ever ambivalent.
Mr. President, the only thing that stops a bad guy with a nuke is a good guy with a nuke.
It's very noble of President Obama to want to stay at the helm and maybe go down with this sinking ship.
We have a President, perhaps for the very first time since the founding of our republic, who doesn't appear to believe that America is the greatest earthly force for good the world has ever known.
There were times (during my early campaigns) when I thought, "You know what I could really use? A wife. "
I used to wonder if the occasionally rough edges of politics were unique here under the Great North Star. But I ventured out a bit this past year, and I tell you that, as partisan quarrels go, ours really aren't so bad.
They think that, if we were just smart enough, we'd be able to understand their policies. And I so want to tell 'em, and I do tell 'em, Oh, we're plenty smart, oh yeah - we know what's goin' on. And we don't like what's goin' on. And we're not gonna let them tell us to sit down and shut up.
My first biography written in '73 was not 'Journey To The Moon. ' It was 'Return To Earth. ' Because for me, that was the more difficult task - disappointment.
In the absence of love, there is nothing worth fighting for.
Only when your memories are more important to you than your goals are you old.
I do not believe that a dog can be cured by a psychiatrist, but I think some owners could be helped by one.