The fact that we are here today to debate raising America's debt limit is a sign of leadership failure. America has a debt problem and a failure of leadership. Americans deserve better. I, therefore, intend to oppose the effort to increase America's debt.

To read too many books is harmful.

Mao Zedong

And now here is my secret, a very simple secret; it is only with the heart that one can see rightly, what is essential is invisible to the eye.

Antoine De SaintExupery

The pleasures of the palate deal with us like the Egyptian thieves, who strangle those whom they embrace.

Seneca (Seneca the Elder)

It's just amazing that there are so many prejudices even now.

Ione Skye

To do anything truly worth doing, I must not stand back shivering and thinking of the cold and danger, but jump in with gusto and scramble through as well as I can.

Og Mandino

For truly it is to be noted, that children's plays are not sports, and should be deemed as their most serious actions.

Michel de Montaigne

I am in politics because of the conflict between good and evil, and I believe that in the end good will triumph.

Margaret Thatcher

Who can map out the various forces at play in one soul? Man is a great depth, O Lord. The hairs of his head are easier by far to count than his feeling, the movements of his heart.

Saint Augustine

Whores and writers, Mahound. We are the people you can't forgive.

Salman Rushdie

One of the most feared expressions in modern times is The computer is down

Norman Augustine

I spent my whole childhood wishing I were older and now I'm spending my adulthood wishing I were younger.

Ricky Schroder

When we talk of freedom and opportunity for all nations, the mocking paradoxes in our own society become so clear they can no longer be ignored.

Wendell Willkie