No brilliance is needed in the law. Nothing but common sense, and relatively clean finger nails.

Historical methodology, as I see it, is a product of common sense applied to circumstances.

I hate all sports as rabidly as a person who likes sports hates common sense.

It is inaccurate to say that I hate everything. I am strongly in favor of common sense, common honesty, and common decency. This makes me forever ineligible for public office.

A balanced program for tax reform based upon the common sense idea of lowering taxes out of surplus revenues.

I'm a real common sense guy who caught a lot of good breaks and who has been very, very fortunate.

It defies common sense that stores are fined for selling toy guns to children, but someone who isn't even allowed to board an airplane in this country can purchase as many real guns he wants with no questions asked.

Have common sense and stick to the point.

Poetry is a mixture of common sense, which not all have, with an uncommon sense, which very few have.

Philosophy is common sense with big words.

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.

I think anybody would have to be with out common sense to think there weren't aliens. There are billions of planets, and I am convinced Earth is not the only one that's inhabited. It would be quite an ego trip to think that. I think about it all the time.

A person of any mental quality has ideas of his own. This is common sense.

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.

Common sense should tell us that there is no reason for civilians to have access to easily concealable handguns with the capability to shoot through body armor.