By asking the question 'Am I happy?,' and via the answer setting out what I mean by happiness, there is a political route that can be taken, by asking another question - 'Can politics deliver happiness, and should it try?'

Neither dead nor alive, the hostage is suspended by an incalculable outcome. It is not his destiny that awaits for him, nor his own death, but anonymous chance, which can only seem to him something absolutely arbitrary. He is in a state of radical emergency, of virtual extermination.

Jean Baudrillard

Americans want government that is leaner, more efficient, and less intrusive into their personal lives.

Rick Perry

Love corrupts and absolute love corrupts absolutely. The unreasonable systems of men, that is.

Silvia Hartmann

Life is not having been told that the man has just waxed the floor.

Ogden Nash

Monuments are the grappling-irons that bind one generation to another.

Joseph Joubert

Difference of opinion is helpful in religion.

Thomas Jefferson

The philosophy of one century is the common sense of the next.

Henry Ward Beecher

Can an author with reason complain that he is cramped and shackled if he is not at liberty to publish blasphemy, bawdry, or sedition?; all of which are equally prohibited in the freest governments, if they are wise and well-regulated ones.

Philip Dormer Stanhope, Letter t

If you put all your strength and faith and vigor into a job and try to do the best you can, the money will come.

Lawrence Welk

With those attacks, the terrorists and their supporters declared war on the United States. And war is what they got.

George W. Bush

I think the American legal system sucks worse than a Celine Dion cover version of Whole Lotta Love.

Dennis Miller

Love will wreck your heart like a derailed train. So choo-choose your partner wisely.?

Jarod Kintz