I liked the idea of writing a song saying I'm happy with who I am, and I don't mind if people think I'm some old git.
I hopes the candidate [Donald Trump] is given fake intelligence briefings. . . because you can't trust him.
The president is now having to deal with a Congress. He's never had to do that before. The president in the past, he has just done whatever he wanted. He had a big rubberstamp here up on Capitol Hill, whatever he wanted, they stamped OK. That's not the way it is now.
We all know if we change the bill, it's gone.
Cut, Cap and Balance is worst legislation in history.
[Social Security ] is not in crisis at this stage. Leave Social Security alone. We have a lot of other places we can look that is in crisis. But Social Security is not.
American families cannot compete with billionaires. Our involvement in government should not be dependent on our bank account balances
The US has developed two coordinate governing classes: the one, called 'business,' building cities, manufacturing and distributing goods, and holding complete and autocratic power over the livelihood of millions; the other, called 'government,' concerned with preaching and exemplification of spiritual ideals, so caught in a mass of theory, that when it wished to move in a practical world it had to do so by means of a sub rosa political machine.
Sincerity is impossible, unless it pervade the whole being, and the pretence of it saps the very foundation of character.
Soon to come in licorice, orange, cinnamon, and banana, but not strawberry, because I hate strawberries.
By striving to prove how much they deserve God's love, legalists miss the whole point of the gospel, that it is a gift from God to people who don't deserve it. The solution to sin is not to impose an ever-stricter code of behavior. It is to know God.