Politician

The Catholic teaching against murder, for example, is largely the same as our secular laws. But as a law, it obviously has a secular rationale at least as strong as its religious rationale.

Lincoln had bad press, too. He wasn't appreciated until after he was gone.

You want calamities? What about the Ice Age?

There's something about rhetorical violence that is ugly and worrying.

Debates are boring.

The first good player I watched as a kid was Joe DiMaggio, and that was like ballet. Since then, I played sandlot and college ball and came to understand how difficult it can be.

Tax should be the same for everybody.

Sometimes comforting the afflicted does require afflicting the comfortable.

I don't ever recall having a political argument with Bob Grant. I've known him a long time. I've always liked him.

In 1984, I gave a speech at Notre Dame titled 'Religious Belief and Public Morality.' I said that Catholic legislators will live by the laws of the church because we want to stay in the club.

If I made a mistake in terms of running for president, the mistake was not in refusing to run in '91.

Decide exactly what you want to achieve. Do you want to help people, or do you want to be powerful?

I had a chance to go on the Supreme Court of the United States, and my whole family was more disappointed in my deciding not to do that than in my deciding not to run for president - much more.

Every time I've done something that doesn't feel right, it's ended up not being right.

My favorite thought about Abraham Lincoln is he believed in two things: loving one another and working together to make this world better.

I guess a psychiatrist would say there's some good to the venting process, but it does also promote an attitude of saying, 'Hey there's nothing wrong with being filled with hate; there's so much of it around.' I don't like that.

My parents were immigrants.

9/11 occurs, and you're going to rebuild, and after awhile, the memory will be there, but there will be something new there, and different, and functioning, and electric.

I think - something I learned recently looking up the meaning of ideology. If you look in American encyclopedias, it says, you know, 'Rules for - basic rules for a system of economics or politics.' If you look in the Oxford, it says that, and then it says... 'Despite - and people will hold these propositions despite events.'

In 1962, President Kennedy succeeded in captivating Americans by explaining the advantages of being the first country to reach the moon and the dangers of allowing another nation to beat us there.