You have citizens who don't understand how government works and they're kind of soured on it. All they do is criticize. They have no idea that they can make things happen.

If my poetry aims to achieve anything, it's to deliver people from the limited ways in which they see and feel.

Jim Morrison

We are the sum of all people we have ever met; you change the tribe and the tribe changes you.

Dirk Wittenborn

If you saw Queen Elizabeth it would be amazing, she came from another planet. She was so attractive in what she was wearing.

Vivienne Westwood

Every year the Federal Government wastes billions of dollars as a result of overpayments of government agencies, misuse of government credit cards, abuse of the Federal entitlement programs, and the mismanagement of the Federal bureaucracy.

Chris Chocola

I used to be a Catholic. I left because I object to conversion by concussion. If you don't agree with what they teach, you get clobbered over the head until you do. All that does is change the shape of the head.

Alan Alda

Where we have strong emotions, we're liable to fool ourselves.

Carl Sagan, Blues for a Red Plan

For years I have been going to the South of France to cool out.

Suzanne Somers

Survival was my only hope, success my only revenge.

Patricia Cornwell

Happiness, n. An agreeable sensation arising from contemplating the misery of another.

Ambrose Bierce

There are some who complain most energetically and inconsolably of any, because they are, as they say, doing their duty. I also have in my mind that seemingly wealthy, but most terribly impoverished class of all, who have accumulated dross, but know not how to use it, or get rid of it, and thus have forged their own golden or silver fetters.

Henry David Thoreau

My mom was diagnosed with breast cancer when I was 13 and it was something we weren't really aware of as a family.

Rima Fakih

I came out of the Soviet Union no longer a communist, because I believed in personal freedom.

Rose Wilder Lane