For 25 years, it has been my privilege to represent the city of San Francisco and the great state of California to work to strengthen our vibrant middle class to secure opportunity and equality.

Vengeance is not the point change is. But the trouble is that in most people's minds the thought of victory and the thought of punishing the enemy coincide.

Barbara Deming

Using these unnamed sources, if done properly, carefully and fairly, provides more accountability in government.

Bob Woodward

Fitness will be a major factor in the first race and I think that will play into the hands of drivers who have been racing recently, rather than people like me who haven't raced properly for a decade. I'am not one of the favourites to start with.

Nigel Mansell

Although in skating you compete with other people, anyone who achieves a certain level of success is first and foremost competing against themselves. And for me the idea that I could always do better, learn more, learn faster, is something that came from skating. But I carried that with me for the rest of my life.

Vera Wang

If someone tells you you're not beautiful, turn around and walk away so they canhave a great view of your fabulous ass.

Miley Cyrus

Live neither in the past nor in the future, but let each day's work absorb your entire energies, and satisfy your widest ambition.

William Osler

It's amazing how fast gold works.

Terry Pratchett

I like a woman with a head on her shoulders. I hate necks.

Steve Martin

Politics makes strange postmasters.

Kin Hubbard

Everyone should know that most cancer research is largely a fraud, and that the major cancer research organizations are derelict in their duties to the people who support them.

Linus Pauling

Let us in education dream of an aristocracy of achievement arising out of a democracy of opportunity

Thomas Jefferson

It is just as impossible to help reform by conciliating prejudice as it is by buying votes. Prejudice is the enemy. Whoever is not for you is against you.

John Jay Chapman