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There are people who are just very, very sniffy and snobby and have always sort of looked down their noses at me.

I was proud to be a Tory Member of Parliament for twelve years, proud to represent Buckingham as a Tory, proud to have voted with my party 99% of the time as the record shows.

I wasn't a very good student in elementary school and had a hard time with reading and writing.

Sometimes even the greatest joys bring challenge, and children with special needs inspire a very, very special love.

I don't think that people are disinterested or uninterested in politics. I think very often they are disengaged from the formal political process. To some extent they are suspicious or even despairing of formal politics as a means to give expression and effect to what they want.

Be kind to one another. You may need each other when you are older.

My family always encouraged my drawing ability. Kids in school who teased me about my reading would get out of their seats and stand behind my desk as I worked and go, 'Wow, you can really draw.' Later, I earned a degree in Fine Art and got a Ph.D. in Art History.

I didn't learn to read until I was almost 14 years old. Reading out loud for me was a nightmare because I would mispronounce words or reconstruct things that weren't even there. That's when one of my teachers discovered I had a learning disability called dyslexia. Once I got help, I read very well!

I guess a small-town mayor is sort of like a community organizer, except that you have actual responsibilities.

Buck up or stay in the truck.

I think the International Criminal Court could be a threat to American security interests, because the prosecutor of the court has enormous discretion in going after war crimes. And the way the Statute of Rome is written, responsibility for war crimes can be taken all the way up the chain of command.

Politicians, like generals, have a tendency to fight the last war.

Well, I'm a libertarian conservative, so I believe in limited government/maximum individual freedom.

There's no such thing as the United Nations. If the U.N. secretary building in New York lost 10 stories, it wouldn't make a bit of difference.

Classical and romantic: private language of a family quarrel, a dead dispute over the distribution of emphasis between man and nature.

The secret of success is to be in harmony with existence, to be always calm to let each wave of life wash us a little farther up the shore.

Negotiation is not a policy. It's a technique. It's something you use when it's to your advantage, and something that you don't use when it's not to your advantage.

Single parent situations drive poverty and often lead to unsupervised kids. Many boys growing up without fathers often feel angry and abandoned. Thus, they seek comfort in all the wrong places.

The true index of a man's character is the health of his wife.

The dread of lonliness is greater than the fear of bondage, so we get married.

It's hard to do it because you gotta look people in the eye and tell 'em they're irresponsible and lazy. And who's gonna wanna do that? Because that's what poverty is, ladies and gentlemen. In this country, you can succeed if you get educated and work hard. Period. Period.

It does no harm just once in a while to acknowledge that the whole country isn't in flames, that there are people in the country besides politicians, entertainers, and criminals.

I consider myself a law-abiding person. But I'm exhausted. I don't know where to put the bottles, newspapers, cans, and other stuff for garbage pickup outside my house. The rules are so thick you need someone from M.I.T. to explain them.

There is little anyone can do with fanatics. Reasoning with them is a fool's errand. Avoiding them is mandatory.

There are a lot of people who are doing wonderful things, quietly, with no motive of greed, or hostility toward other people, or delusions of superiority.

The everyday kindness of the back roads more than makes up for the acts of greed in the headlines.

Kinder müssen wieder willkommen sein und einen festen Platz im Alltag haben.