May I share with you my earliest memory of a political row? It was with my mother about the Queen - classic Freudian stuff shrinks would say. I was eight and refusing to watch the Queen's Christmas Day broadcast.

If the abstract rights of man will bear discussion and explanation those of women by a parity of reasoning will not shrink from the same test.

Some artists shrink from self-awareness fearing that it will destroy their unique gifts and even their desire to create. The truth of the matter is quite opposite.

It is error only and not truth that shrinks from inquiry.

The time at our disposal each day is elastic the passions we feel dilate it those that inspire us shrink it and habit fills it.

A thing is mighty big when time and distance cannot shrink it.

We must continue to pursue peace through diplomacy but we must also not shrink from our responsibility through the option of strength. We must take advantage of internal resistance and change from within Iran to avert this path of mutual destruction.

I got problems. I freak out go to a shrink go through all kinds of therapy and stuff but I'm learning how to deal with it. That's why I've chosen one hour a night to get all of my aggressions out. to really tell the world the way I feel.

Knowledge shrinks as wisdom grows.

To the extent that the judicial profession becomes the daily routine of deciding cases on the most secure precedents and the narrowest grounds available the judicial mind atrophies and its perspective shrinks.

The fact is if our primary legislative goals are to repeal and replace the health spending bill to end the bailouts cut spending and shrink the size and scope of government the only way to do all these things it is to put someone in the White House who won't veto any of these things.

All great and beautiful work has come of first gazing without shrinking into the darkness.

We don't need bigger government. We need to shrink the size of government.

But I don't want massive layoffs of anyone - public or private. We are planning on shrinking government through attrition and reform not through random pink slips.

Higher taxes is the road to ruin. We must and we will shrink our government and that means making some tough choices tightening our belts.

Our goal is to shrink government to the size where we can drown it in a bathtub.

You are a child of God. Your playing small does not serve the world. There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won't feel insecure about you. We were born to manifest the glory of God that is within us.

Conservatism discards Prescription shrinks from Principle disavows Progress having rejected all respect for antiquity it offers no redress for the present and makes no preparation for the future.

The words spoken by the leader of the free world can expand the frontiers of freedom or shrink them. When Ronald Reagan called on Gorbachev to 'tear down this wall ' a surge of confidence rose that would ultimately breach the bounds of the evil empire.

In the long history of the world only a few generations have been granted the role of defending freedom in its hour of maximum danger. I do not shrink from this responsibility - I welcome it.

People are afraid and when people are afraid when their pie is shrinking they look for somebody to hate. They look for somebody to blame. And a real leader speaks to anxiety and to fear and allays those fears assuages anxiety.

Men shrink less from offending one who inspires love than one who inspires fear.

Expose yourself to your deepest fear after that fear has no power and the fear of freedom shrinks and vanishes. You are free.

I have a Christian worldview and so it shapes the way that I view issues. I don't apologize for that and I don't think people of faith ought to shrink away from being in the public arena.