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John Paul II spoke to the commoner and to the king, to the tyrant and to the democrat in that same language of freedom.

Paying tax is not a punishment. It's a responsibility.

The more failure you can accept, the greater your chance of success.

The author deduces the best way James Baker serve Reagan as Chief of Staff was to continually remind him why he wanted to be president.

Why didn't we recognize how much it bothered them spiritually and politically?

Even the bureaucracy does not shatter the stillness.

Anecdotes came with his DNA.

It's a fact of life that positive reasons don't always get people to vote. You need some negative reasons.

Isn't it odd that the guy was politically correct in one particularly weird way. Bill Clinton never lit a cigar.

It's not such a bad idea, at any time, to be seen as FIGHTING, especially when you might just win.

The Russian people were just like us. They were victims of their own government. Ronald Reagan

The whole reason we organize grassroots is, we think any politician that gets elected needs to be held accountable 365 days a year.

Every party and every movement tends to need a hero.

We supported the contras. We're not against all opposition to government, or all paramilitary operations.

If you think what you see on TV is prejudiced, it is. Follow your instincts.

I'm so glad we had that storm last week.

You don't say, like the Bush crowd, 'I got this guy over here and I don't like him and I'm gonna get him, whether you back me or not.'

The reason I had unfaithfulness in one of my marriages is because I was too patriotic.

Are Democrats for expanding U.S. trade with the world and perhaps creating new jobs, or are they out to protect existing U.S. jobs?

Shared history was the coin of the realm.

When I hear Rand Paul, who is much younger, saying wars are verkakte, I agree with him.

That is the voice of God because its the voice of truth and experience.

I forgot he [Barack Obama] was black tonight for an hour.

We in America count on the profit motive to get people to do the right thing. That's our basic American notion when it comes to business.

They were unable to stand up and say: 'Here's our policy. It's Unite the world against terrorism.'

Any jackass can talk about bombing Iran.

In politics, nothing good ever comes from the unexpected.

B.B. King will be remembered for his impressive skills on the guitar, that King defined the blue genre.

I think we all [americans] think we're a special country. But the question is, what - what call does that give us?

Historically, the coupling of president and Speaker has been a tricky one that encourages a choreography both quick-footed and wary

The last person to be beatified by Pope John Paul II was Mother Teresa of Calcutta in 2003.

Keep you enemies in front of you.

While we may not mind being used, we resent deeply being made to feel discarded.

Tip, if I had a ticket to heaven and you didn't have one too, I would give mine away and go to hell with you.

Ronald Reagan

The Indians are still winning the battle against the white men, but sooner or later, the white guy will win.

You can't be loved for long if you're not feared.

Let's not forget, Sarah Palin may not have a golden touch, but, she gave Christine O'Donnell candidate a big touch that got her over the top.

Everything he's done is clean as a whistle. He's never not only broken any law, he's never done anything wrong.

I used to love hand raising.

America's the one country in the world where anybody who comes here does better than where they came from.

I'm reading Joe Eszterhas biography; it's fabulous. Every time he made a movie, he fought with the director or the producer over the ending.

The Catholic Church [with Pope John Paul II] has lost its shepherd. The world has lost a champion of human freedom.

He was making the inevitable pivot from critic to manager.

on-air appearance you could see that the secretary of state

My priority is to see that some people don't suffer for the good of others.

Each man had come to know the other's caricature as a lie.

Isn't Hollywood - and I love movies - a lot of it about a big lie?

The big lie is that the people who make a lot of money were the only ones that worked hard.

It was like an aphrodisiac. Actors would say let's have another cigarette on that great scenes, and they'd blow smoke in each other's face.

I think, any politician, you have to hold them to their word. And conservatives run on fiscal conservatism.

If you want to play a game, go to where it's played and find a way to get in. Things happen when you get in the game.

Pope John Paul II is the great. Only two other popes had that title. Does that suggest there is going to be a move for canonization?

My audience is much more center right, or centrist.

He's a beautiful man, but I'm sorry he doesn't agree with my political philosophy

Tip O'Neill on Ronald Reagan

This looking down our noses at tea party people has got to stop,

Toastmasters changed my life. They really did. Put me on the stage.
I don't know what I would have done without that positive boost.

Keep your enemies in front of you.

Nothing is as important as the biggest day in your life.

I can't find a reason to be for this war. I've looked, and I can't, so I'm not.

In life, as in death, Pope John Paul II was one of the most visible people on Earth.

All the 'too close to call' announcements are not due to incompetence ... It's caution.

I think, like Ronald Reagan, in another way, in a secular way, John Paul II was a great communicator, but he was also a man of deep conviction.

I love what Joe Eszterhas written about Bill Clinton. It's hilarious, Clinton as a rock star, which is the way we should remember him.

He was experienced enough to spot the downside of doing the right thing.

I never wrote off [Donald] Trump.

Canonization in modern times is a very, almost scientific process.

I wonder ... if the Republican Party really wants to be branded right now as the party of tax cuts and torture? I mean that's what they're selling.

You don't know whether he's thought through how this is going to affect the Middle East.

We've always had a dual role in the region - friend of Israel, and honest broker. We've given up the honest broker role completely.

My, I felt this thrill going up my leg. I mean, I don't have that too often.

In politics there is a large difference between loosing and being defeated.

His [John Paul II] humanity, combined with his extraordinary spiritual authority, was unlike anything I've ever met.

Staffers tend to mimic their bosses, to take their key from them.

Then the administration tied it in to the regional dispute between Israel and its enemies, as if that's about international terrorism. No, it's not.

He's cutting the heart out of the American dream to own a home and have a good job ... and still he's popular

Tip O'Neill on Ronald Reagan