Candor is a compliment it implies equality. It's how true friends talk.
Most people aren't appreciated enough, and the bravest things we do in our lives are usually known only to ourselves. No one throws ticker tape on the man who chose to be faithful to his wife, on the...
Part of courage is simple consistency.
Beware the politically obsessed. They are often bright and interesting, but they have something missing in their natures there is a hole, an empty place, and they use politics to fill it up. It leaves...
Word of the day- kakistocracy. From the Greek meaning government by the worst persons, least qualified or most unprincipled.
If you join government, calmly make your contribution and move on. Don't go along to get along do your best and when you have to - and you will - leave, and be something else.
Everyone over 50 in America feels like a refugee. In the Old America there were a lot of bad parents. There always are, because parenting is hard. Inadequate parents could say, 'Go outside and play in...
Sincerity and competence is a strong combination. In politics, it is everything.
You don't have to be old in America to say of a world you lived in: That world is gone.
Here is an old tradition badly in need of return: You have to earn your way into politics. You should go have a life, build a string of accomplishments, then enter public service....
But one immediate thing can be done right now, and that is: lower the temperature. Any way you can, and everybody. Just lower it.
The battle for the mind of Ronald Reagan was like the trench warfare of World War I: never have so many fought so hard for such barren terrain.