I don't know if the average person really has faith in Washington anymore.

Life, misfortunes, isolation, abandonment, poverty, are battlefields which have their heroes; obscure heroes, sometimes greater than the illustrious heroes.

Victor Hugo, Les Mis, 1862

A politician is a statesman who approaches every question with an open mouth.

Adlai Stevenson

Don't be afraid of your fears. They're not there to scare you. They're there to let you know that something is worth it.

C. JoyBell C.

Our success educationally, industrially and politically is based upon the protection of a nation founded by ourselves. And the nation can be nowhere else but in Africa.

Marcus Garvey

Hesitation increases in relation to risk in equal proportion to age.

Ernest Hemingway

Corporations often partner with government after natural disasters, as many companies did in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina in 2005. As a rule, however, long-term civic/corporate partnerships are still rare .But this need not remain the status quo, as many opportunities are available for such partnerships.

Simon Mainwaring

After every major conflict - World War I, World War II, Korea, Vietnam, the fall of the Soviet Union - what happened was that we ultimately hollowed out the force, largely by doing deep across-the-board cuts.

Leon Panetta

In the tide of these wild thoughts we checked our fancy, rememberingthat only on the rare grains called planets can life gain foothold, andthat all this wealth of restless jewels was but a waste of fire.

Olaf Stapledon

I had a birthday one night on a farm we were shooting on. I walked into the tent, and there were 150 people waiting for me, all wearing masks of my face.

Stephen Hopkins

I was brought up to believe that the only thing worth doing was to add to the sum of accurate information in the world.

Margaret Mead

I'm interested in the human impact of the giant foot of misplaced government. After all, we encounter it every day.

Dave Eggers

Being in the design industry, I've tended to meet more people who are affected by HIV and AIDS.

Douglas Wilson