Youth is wasted on the young.

If history repeats itself, and the unexpected always happens, how incapable must Man be of learning from experience.

A fool's brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and art into pedantry. Hence University education.

I would like to take you seriously, but to do so would be an affront to your intelligence.

Politics gets me out of bed in the morning It's what really interests me. I'm a competitor, but I also feel like I'm contributing, whether it's working on health-care policy in the White House or out here in Chicago.

I strongly believe that every American should always be rooting for our president to do well, no matter which political party that he or she might belong to.

Global political conditions make a direct American intervention difficult, but President Reagan's messianic and visceral attitude toward the Nicaraguan revolution could mean it will happen as an act of desperation.

In the rush to become all things to all people, the federal government has lost sight of its core responsibilities. As a result we're stuck in this frustrating paradox where Washington actually neglects things it's clearly supposed to be doing, while interfering in other areas where they are neither welcome nor authorized.