Government, even in its best state, is but a necessary evil; in its worst state, an intolerable one.

Conformity is the jailer of freedom and the enemy of growth.

John F. Kennedy

You know who a complicated tax code kills? The guy or gal trying to start a business out of the spare bedroom of their home. So we've got to simplify our tax code.

Marco Rubio

We're in a new world. We're in a world in which the possibility of terrorism, married up with technology, could make us very, very sorry that we didn't act.

Condoleezza Rice

We say that a girl with her doll anticipates the mother. It is more true, perhaps, that most mothers are still but children with playthings.

Francis H. Bradley

this is the rough part, okay? so just stay tuned for the good part. i promise it'll come soon.

John Green

Somewhere between 50 to 60 percent of the food you eat has been touched by immigrant hands, and it is fair to say some of them are not here as they should be here. But if you didn't have these folks, you would be spending a lot more - three, four or five times more - for food, or we would have to import food and have all the food security risks.

Tom Vilsack

Science is an essentially anarchic enterprise: theoretical anarchism is more humanitarian and more likely to encourage progress than its law-and-order alternatives.

Paul Karl Feyerabend

A criminal remains a criminal whether he uses a convict's suit or a monarch's crown.

Victor Hugo

The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves. We cannot force love.

William Hazlitt

...set your fantasies in the here and now and then, if challenged, claim to be writing Magical Realism.

Neil Gaiman

Whether we knew many who died on September 11 or personally knew none, we all lost something on that day. Innocence. Security. A trust that our homeland would always be safe.

Bob Taft

I never had a cool older brother or sister to turn me on to cool music. I had to discover it for myself.

Tony Kanal