"Councils of war breed timidity and defeatism."

"To Republicans, I humbly suggest that we make it possible for Democrats to give up their quest for redistribution of income and wealth by our acceptance of an appropriate role for government in financing those public goods and services necessary to secure a social safety net below which no American would be allowed to fall."

"Our goals for this nation must be nothing less than to double the size of our economy and bring prosperity and jobs, ownership and equality of opportunity to all Americans, especially those living in our nation's pockets of poverty."

"My passion for ideas is not matched with a passion for partisan or electoral politics."

"Stillness is not emptiness; it is the presence of unencumbered clarity. A lesson woven into the fabric of human history — an essential principle for the reflective life."

"I went further and further back through the centuries to get a sense of perspective but now at least I understand why Irish history evokes such strong passions and emotions."

"History does not long entrust the care of freedom to the weak or the timid."

"I've had people come up to me in the past and say they enjoyed whatever show I've been in."