There is no comparing the brutality and cynicism of today's pop culture with that of forty years ago: from High Noon to Robocop is a long descent.

I think the idea that you can go this alone is - was a huge mistake. And unfortunately, there was a price paid in terms of suffering and pain for people in New Orleans.

Michael Chertoff

Promises and pie crusts are made to be broken.

Jonathan Swift

The purposes of the United States should not be doubted. The Security Council resolutions will be enforced - the just demands of peace and security will be met - or action will be unavoidable. And a regime that has lost its legitimacy will also lose its power.

Colin Powell

Bush's war in Iraq has done untold damage to the United States. It has impaired our military power and undermined the morale of our armed forces. Our troops were trained to project overwhelming power. They were not trained for occupation duties.

George Soros

I think government has a major role to play in helping us with the pursuit of happiness.

William Weld

Man is born free, yet he is everywhere in chains.

Jean Jacques Rousseau

Thou knowst the oer-eager vehemence of youth,How quick in temper, and in judgement weak.

Homer

I find it incredibly romantic that people should fight for a cause they believe in and be prepared to die for it.

James D'arcy

To be prepared against surprise is to be trained. To be prepared for surprise is to be educated.

James Carse

It is easy to fly into a passion anybody can do that but to be angry with the right person and at the right time and with the right object and in the right way that is not easy, and it is not everyone who can do it.

Aristotle

Jesus, my life is Thine, And ever more shall be Hidden in Thee, For nothing can untwine Thy life from mine.

Frances Ridley Havergal

Destiny is something men select; women achieve it only by default or stupendous suffering.

Harriet Rosenstein