This is a confusing and uncertain period, when a thousand wise words can go completely unnoticed, and one thoughtless word can provoke an utterly nonsensical furor.

In spite of advances in technology and changes in the economy, state government still operates on an obsolete 1970s model. We have a typewriter government in an Internet age.

Matt Blunt

You can find peace amidst the storms that threaten you.

Joseph B. Wirthlin

I love to deer hunt and fish and drive down the back roads in my truck. All those things basically equal freedom to me - and not having to return that message or call from my record company or management. At some point, I need to recharge.

Blake Shelton

I'm still very professional about my fitness. I stay in trim as I always did.

Peter Shilton

I was always struck by how Picasso had no interest in music.

David Hockney

So sometimes the facts are good and sometimes the facts are bad, the important thing from the point of view of a principle as broad and important as freedom of speech is that the courts articulate and set forth in a very protective way what those principles are.

Floyd Abrams

Widespread public access to knowledge, like public education, is one of the pillars of our democracy, a guarantee that we can maintain a well-informed citizenry.

Scott Turow

Saddam Hussein has been engaged in the development of weapons of mass destruction technology which is a threat to countries in the region and he has made a mockery of the weapons inspection process.

Nancy Pelosi

A sex symbol becomes a thing.... I just hate to be a thing.

Marilyn Monroe, As quoted in Ms.

To not be modest about it, you'll find that with only a couple of exceptions, most of the musicians that I've worked with have done their best work by far with me.

David Bowie

You can't really be strong until you see a funny side to things.

Ken Kesey

It never made sense to me that someone would achieve any kind of success in show business, only to become a jerk.

Josh Radnor