A government for the people must depend for its success on the intelligence, the morality, the justice, and the interest of the people themselves.

I never forget a face, but in your case I'll make an exception.

Groucho Marx

I know many writers who first dictate passages, then polish what they have dictated. I speak, then I polish - occasionally I do windows.

Edward Koch

The people never give up their liberties, but under some delusion.

Edmund Burke

The career of a politician mainly consists in making one part of the nation do what it does not want to do, in order to please and satisfy the other part of the nation. It is the prolonged sacrifice of the rights of some persons at the bidding and for the satisfaction of other persons. The ruling idea of the politician - stated rather bluntly - is that those who are opposed to him exist for the purpose of being made to serve his ends, if he can get power enough in his hands to force these ends upon them.

Auberon Herbert

Teenagers who are never required to vacuum are living in one.

Fred G. Gosman

Everyone's allowed to be in love with the wrong person at some point. In fact, it's a mistake not to be.

Harriet Evans

Skip the religion and politics, head straight to the compassion. Everything else is a distraction.

Talib Kweli

By offering individuals ownership and control of their health care coverage, we return control to the patients and that is exactly where it should be.

Chris Chocola

I thought if I wanted people to take me seriously, I needed to act serious and not reveal too much of my private life so people could seriously accept me in different things.

John Corbett

He tells himself over and over again in any choice presented to him, 'Prefer the hard.' This holds good not only in great matters, but also in very small, in fighting by the frozen Danube and in starting the day early.

Marcus Aurelius

Cultivators of the earth are the most valuable citizens. They are the most vigorous, the most independant, the most virtuous, and they are tied to their country and wedded to its liberty and interests by the most lasting bands. As long therefore as they can find emploiment in this line, I would not convert them into mariners, artisans, or any thing else. But our citizens will find emploiment in this line till their numbers, and of course their productions, become too great for the demand both internal and foreign.

Thomas Jefferson

Politics, like theater, is one of those things where you've got to be wise enough to know when to leave.

Richard Lamm