It takes courage to set priorities because doing so is an admission that American policy cannot be all things to all people - or rather to all interest groups
If Reagan wins, I'd sell the farm and buy a bomb shelter.
Every program that ever helped working people, from rural electrification to Medicare, was enacted by liberals over the opposition of conservatives. When people tell me they don't like liberals, I ask, "Do you like Social Security? If so, then shut up!"
Don't throw away your conscience.
One of the sharp parallels is that neither Vietnam nor Iraq was the slightest threat to America's national security.
I firmly believed throughout 1971 that the major hurdle to winning the presidency was winning the Democratic nomination. I believed that any reasonable Democrat would defeat President Nixon. I now think that no one could have defeated him in 1972.
I have a very deep concern about President Obama putting in another 21,000 troops into Afghanistan with the promise of more to come.
Obama's Nobel Peace Prize is an exquisite act of condescension from Norwegians, a dog biscuit and a pat on the head to the American hyperpower for agreeing to spay itself into a hyperpoodle.
It's hard to see clearly when your eyes are squinched tight out of fear.
Kids love to be silly, they love to laugh, so I think it was natural for my kids to like the sort of books that I write - and it's the only kinds of books I'm capable of writing.
People who want their love easy don't really want love.