Concerns about the size and role of government are what seem to leave reformers stammering and speechless in town-hall meetings. The right wants to have a debate over fundamental principles elected Democrats seem incapable of giving it to them.

I love skating so much and I feel like every time I step out onto the ice, that's what I'm meant to do.

Clara Hughes

The reason that minorities and women don't have a better shot at getting elected to the Senate or to statewide office is because the campaign finance rules are so skewed as to make it very difficult for non-traditional candidates to raise the money necessary to get elected.

Carol Moseley Braun

The best discussion of trouble in boardroom and business office is found in newspapers' own financial pages and speeches by journalists in management jobs.

Russell Baker

My esoteric doctrine, is that if you entertain any doubt, it is safest to take the unpopular side in the first instance. Transit from the unpopular, is easy... but from the popular to the unpopular is so steep and rugged that it is impossible to maintain it.

Lord Melbourne

To gain that which is worth having, it may be necessary to lose everything else.

Bernadette Devlin

Bobby Fischer has an enormous knowledge of chess and his familiarity with the chess literature of the USSR is immense.

Boris Spassky

Nothing can be made of nothing; he who has laid up no material can produce no combination.

Sir Joshua Reynolds

Truth is an homage that the good man pays to his own dignity.

Jean Jacques Rousseau

During the Vietnam War, Abbie Hoffman announced that the new high was banana peels taken rectally. So then FBI scientists stuffed banana peels up their asses to find out if this was true or not.

Kurt Vonnegut

I can take it... The tougher it gets, the cooler I get...

Richard Milhous Nixon

Literature flourishes best when it is half trade and half an art.

W. R. [William Ralph] Inge

There is no such thing as luck. It's a fancy name for being always at our duty, and so sure to be ready when good time comes.

Edward George BulwerLytton