In times like these, it helps to recall that there have always been times like these.

If 'pro' is the opposite of 'con' what is the opposite of 'progress'?

Ever occur to you why some of us can be this much concerned with animals suffering? Because government is not. Why not? Animals don't vote.

I've never seen a monument erected to a pessimist.

I am fiercely loyal to those willing to put their money where my mouth is.

In times like these, it helps to recall that there have always been times like these.

Now you know the rest of the story.

Dependency arguments often come from elites - either aid agencies or governments - and say something about attitudes to poor people.

Every pessimist who ever lived has been buried in an unmarked grave. Tomorrow has always been better than today, and it always will be.

When your outgo exceeds your income, the upshot may be your downfall.

Like what you do, if you don't like it, do something else.

Golf is a game in which you yell "fore," shoot six, and write down five.

Retiring is just practicing up to be dead. That doesn't take any practice.

If there is a 50-50 chance that something can go wrong, then 9 times out of ten it will.

A policeman must know everything - and not tell. He must know where all the sin is and not partake.

As industry's tycoons of the Thirties got their wings clipped, labor's leaders in the Eighties are getting their wings clipped. Not because of any class-related antagonism, but because any excess, ultimately, is its own undoing.

Cut out the free feed for the boss hogs at the public trough and the spill-over they've been leaving us. We'll manage.

Ever since I made tomorrow my favorite day, I've been uncomfortable looking back.

Golf is a game in which you yell 'fore,' shoot six, and write down five.

Government has to be cut back like asparagus... every day... or it gets away and goes to seed. Ours did. When there's too much of it, the flower becomes a weed.

I was never one who sought to make the small man tall by cutting off the legs of a giant. I wanted to drag no man down to my size. Only to preserve a way of life which might make it possible for me, one day, to elevate myself until I at least partly matched his size.

One vote. That's a big weapon you have there, Mister. In 1948, just one additional vote in each precinct would have elected Dewey. In 1960, one vote in each precinct in Illinois would have elected Nixon. One vote.

Self-government won't work without self-discipline.

The policeman must be a minister, a social worker, a diplomat, a tough guy, and a gentleman. And, of course, he'd have to be a genius... For he will have to feed a family on a policeman's salary.

We were poor, but we didn't know it. There were no government bureaus in those days presuming to determine where poorness begins and ends, but I don't remember ever being hungry.

What is a policeman made of? He, of all men, is once the most needed and the most unwanted. He's a strangely nameless creature who is 'Sir' to his face and 'Fuzz' to his back.

When America's early pioneers first turned their eyes toward the West, they did not demand that somebody take care of them if they got ill or got old. They did not demand maximum pay for minimum work, and even pay for no work at all.

In times like these it is good to remember that there have always been times like these.

Golf is a game in which you yell fore shoot six and write down five.

If there is a 50 50 chance that something can go wrong then 9 times out of ten it will.

The spirit of interdependence will not cost us more than it's worth. On the steep slope ahead, holding hands is necessary. And it just might be that we can learn to enjoy it.

Stay in your seat come times of trouble. Its only people who jump off the roller coaster who get hurt.

In small towns as well as large, good people outnumber bad people by 100 to 1. In big towns the 100 are nervous. But in small towns, it's the one.

Tomorrow has always been better than today, and it always will be.

It really comes down to the fact that, because I was perceived as a bad guy for leaving the show, I think people were rooting against the movies. That was really unfortunate.

I won't use abortion as a litmus test with a pro-choice individual. Someone that is an activist on the abortion issue, I think, goes outside the pale, and I cannot support an activist on the abortion issue.

Once you get offstage you're just like everyone else, and everyone else can get into a fight.

Don't feel guilty for doing what's best for you.

What you have is two men seeking the White House; they're both products of prominent New England families. They both went to private boarding schools. They both went to a prestigious university.

The truly miserable have a timbre in their voices strong enough to erase smiles from the faces and souls of the contented.

In the beginning you will fall into the gaps in between thoughts - after practicing for years, you become the gap.

The public's perception of your show is what it is, and you don't get to complain how people perceive your show or talk about it.

We partied with the royal rich people, and we felt like rock stars. We drank all the whiskey in the place.

It's very hard to live with yourself if you don't stick with your moral code.

'419 scams,' named for a clause from the Nigerian penal code, are such a part of the white noise of the digital age that we no longer notice them.

Leaned on by Turkey and understandably wary of false equivalences - for not every death is a massacre, and not every war is genocidal - Israel connives in Armenian genocide denial.

My father would often work all night and sleep during the day, so for us, dinner might be pancakes, and breakfast might be beef stroganoff.

At no time is freedom of speech more precious than when a man hits his thumb with a hammer.

My first series regular was on a TV show called 'Starved,' which was so many years ago, and I was the only guy they brought in. So I go in, I read, it goes well. The next day I hear I got the job, and I rejoiced.