Not to sound corny, but intelligence is big. Everything fades, and everything can be modified. But intelligence is something you can't fake. I'm not even talking about whether you can read a thesaurus backwards. But there is a beauty in common sense.
The GOP leaders are upset with me, but the Republicans around the district are thanking me for stepping up to the plate and giving them a choice in this election of a real common sense conservative Reagan Republican.
The House passage of our bill is a victory for this country! Common sense wins out. I'm just so thrilled and excited. The sale of guns must stop. Halfway measures are not enough.
The new rage is to say that the government is the cause of all our problems, and if only we had no government, we'd have no problems. I can tell you, that contradicts evidence, history, and common sense.
It is a thousand times better to have common sense without education than to have education without common sense.
The failure to invest in youth reflects a lack of compassion and a colossal failure of common sense.
With bullying and all the stuff going on, words are very important. Words can be more hurtful than anything physically. I got little kids, and it's common sense when you're raising them that the main thing is how you talk to people, and how you treat people. Sometimes I think the world forgets that as we get older.
Common sense is the genius of humanity.
A balanced program for tax reform based upon the common sense idea of lowering taxes out of surplus revenues.
Common sense varies among the young, as among the old.
At a time when we are dealing with unpredictable suppliers of energy abroad and higher gas costs at home, the decision to increase domestic energy exploration is integral to a balanced, common sense energy policy.
I believe in the Constitution - and I believe in common sense.
The myths underlying our culture and underlying our common sense have not taught us to feel identical with the universe, but only parts of it, only in it, only confronting it - aliens.
Common sense is in spite of, not as the result of education.
Society is always taken by surprise at any new example of common sense.
Do not be bullied out of your common sense by the specialist; two to one, he is a pedant.
Such as have reason, understanding, or common sense, will, and ought to make use of it in those things that concern themselves and their posterity, and suspect the words of such as are interested in deceiving or persuading them not to see with their own eyes.
Most people die of a sort of creeping common sense, and discover when it is too late that the only things one never regrets are one's mistakes.
Science, literature, and common sense tell us that the self is a fickle thing, subject to revision in real time, and that the chasm that exists between any two people exists inside each and every one of us.
Raising taxes doesn't create jobs, and this is a common sense thing. Washington doesn't get it. They believe if they take more money and send it to Washington, D.C. somehow they create wealth. It doesn't work.
The genius of a good leader is to leave behind him a situation which common sense, without the grace of genius, can deal with successfully.
In January 1776, Thomas Paine issued 'Common Sense,' advocating independence from Great Britain.
The problem is that agencies sometimes lose sight of common sense as they create regulations.
Philosophy likes to keen common sense on the run.
I think that carrying on a life that is meant to be private in public is a breach of taste, common sense, and mental hygiene.
It ought to be self-evident common sense that service is important to sales. But it's not.
Falling in love consists merely in uncorking the imagination and bottling the common sense.
My Lords temporal, today is the day to rise up against the regiment of Lords spiritual and proclaim the values of enlightenment, compassion and common sense.
If we seek the pleasures of love, passion should be occasional, and common sense continual.
Common sense tells us that the things of the earth exist only a little, and that true reality is only in dreams.
My greatest strength is common sense. I'm really a standard brand - like Campbell's tomato soup or Baker's chocolate.
Academic and aristocratic people live in such an uncommon atmosphere that common sense can rarely reach them.
Common sense is very uncommon.
I'm a real common sense guy who caught a lot of good breaks and who has been very, very fortunate.
Common sense is the most fairly distributed thing in the world, for each one thinks he is so well-endowed with it that even those who are hardest to satisfy in all other matters are not in the habit of desiring more of it than they already have.
The first-sale doctrine reflects basic common sense - and follows from the logic of treating copyrights and other 'intellectual property' with no more protection than regular property.