Corruption and hypocrisy ought not to be inevitable products of democracy, as they undoubtedly are today

Ambition should be made of sterner stuff.

William Shakespeare

This is me telling the truth. It just so happens to be a very explosive truth.

Corey Clark

Those who talk on the razor-edge of double-meanings pluck the rarest blooms from the precipice on either side.

Logan Pearsall Smith

A question like the present should be disposed of without undue delay. But a State cannot be expected to move with the celerity of a private business man; it is enough if it proceeds, in the language of the English Chancery, with all deliberate speed.

Oliver Wendell Holmes

Every once in a while, a new technology, an old problem, and a big idea turn into an innovation.

Dean Kamen

We know what we are, but not what we may be.

William Shakespeare

To the former child migrants, who came to Australia from a home far away, led to believe this land would be a new beginning, when only to find it was not a beginning, but an end, an end of innocence - we apologise and we are sorry. To the mothers who lost the maternal right to love and care for their child - we apologise, and we are sorry.

Malcolm Turnbull

Hopes are but the dreams of those that wake.

Matthew Prior

It takes a politician to run a government. A statesman is a politician who's been dead for fifteen years.

Harry S Truman

It takes two people to ruin a perfectly good day. First a person who says something downright nasty about you, and second, a dear friend who makes sure you hear about it immediately.

Source Unknown

Do not speak of evil for it creates curiosityin the hearts of the young.

American Indian Proverb, Lakota

Money and women are the most sought after and the least known about of any two things we have.

Will Rogers