Clinton's successor in the White House, George W. Bush, was committed to expanding government spending for faith-based initiatives.

The Miss America contest is the most perfectly rendered theater in our culture, for it so perfectly captures what we yearn for: a low-class ritual, a polished restatement of vulgarity, that wants to open the door to high-class respectability by way of plain middle-class anxiety and ambition.

Gerald Early

My cousins gay, I always tell him that in our family tree, he's in the fruit section.

Rodney Dangerfield

I feel like football players are overworked and underpaid compared to any other sports.

Terrell Owens

Conscientious people are apt to see their duty in that which is the most painful course.

George Eliot

Americans are like a rich father who wishes he knew how to give his son the hardships that made him rich.

Robert Frost

When angry, count to ten before you speak. If very angry, count to one hundred.

Thomas Jefferson

A child is beset with long traditions. And his infancy is so old, so old, that the mere adding of years in the life to follow will not seem to throw it further back -- it is already so far.

Alice Meynell

The average American is nothing if not patriotic.

Herbert Croly

A man is morally free when, in full possession of his living humanity, he judges the world, and judges other men, with uncompromising sincerity.

George Santayana

The artist is the child of his time; but woe to him if he is also its disciple, or even its favorite.

Friedrich von Schiller

Be thine own palace, or the world's thy jail.

John Donne

Be less curious about people and more curious about ideas.

Marie Curie