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"The Vice-Presidency is sort of like the last cookie on the plate. Everybody insists he won't take it, but somebody always does."
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"Democracy, freedom and liberty do not make us more than what we are; it is our commitment that matters."

"You don't necessarily need atomic bombs to destroy a nation. Politicians who value their pockets than the life of citizens always do that every day."

"It is an axiom in my mind, that our liberty can never be safe but in the hands of the people themselves, and that too of the people with a certain degree of instruction. This it is the business of the State to effect, and on a general plan."

"Canada remains alienated from its allies, shut out of the reconstruction process to some degree, unable to influence events. There is no upside to the position Canada took."

"A market where chief executive officers make 262 times that of the average worker and 821 times that of the minimum-wage worker is not a market that is working well. And it is surely not working well enough to build a solid middle class."

"It would seem that the Watergate story from beginning to end could be used as a primer on the American political system."

"Sadly, the President's budget proposal for the upcoming year once again puts cutting taxes for the wealthiest Americans over addressing our country's severe fiscal problems."

"Since its first day as a nation, Israel has lived under a cloud of aggression from militant extremists and hostile neighboring governments."
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"We hope that, when the insects take over the world, they will remember with gratitude how we took them along on all our picnics."

"A citizen of America will cross the ocean to fight for democracy, but won't cross the street to vote in a national election."

"Money won't buy happiness, but it will pay the salaries of a large research staff to study the problem."

"A three year old child is a being who gets almost as much fun out of a fifty-six dollar set of swings as it does out of finding a small green worm."

"People learn something every day, and a lot of times it's that what they learned the day before was wrong."

"Youth is when you're allowed to stay up late on New Year's Eve. Middle age is when you're forced to."

"Man is the animal that intends to shoot himself out into interplanetary space, after having given up on the problem of an efficient way to get himself five miles to work and back each day."

"Maybe the answer to Selective Service is to start everyone off in the army and draft them for civilian life as needed."

"Economists report that a college education adds many thousands of dollars to a man's lifetime income - which he then spends sending his son to college."
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