Our constitutional liberties shall not be sacrificed in our search for greater security, for that is what our enemies and all enemies of freedom and democracy hope to achieve.

On health care, virtually every political error that could be made was made.

Sidney Blumenthal

Wishing to be friends is quick work, but friendship is slow-ripening fruit.

Aristotle

My illness has taught me something about the nature of humanity, love, brotherhood and relationships that I never understood, and probably never would have. So, from that standpoint, there is some truth and good in everything.

Lee Atwater

The stars are on the inside. They are effing beautiful.

Cath Crowley

Has it not got down as thin as the homeopathic soup that was made by boiling the shadow of a pigeon that had starved to death?

Abraham Lincoln

The fact that man knows right from wrong proves his intellectual superiority to other creatures; but the fact that he can do wrong proves his moral inferiority to any creature that cannot.

Mark Twain, What Is Man?

Well Australia's been in Afghanistan from the get go, way back in 2001, but we have been resolute throughout and with support from both sides of Australian politics.

Kevin Rudd

When it comes to money nobody should give up anything.

Anthony Trollope

Grieve not, then, if your sons seem to desert you, but rejoice, rather, seeing the will of God done gladly.

Jim Elliot

I am extremely proud of my service with the government and my efforts to help safeguard public health and protect our country against the scourge of offensive biological warfare.

Steven Hatfill

Courage is getting away from death by continually coming within an inch of it.

G. K. Chesterton

Giving up even an ounce of precious freedom is a very serious thing to do.

Charles Schumer