Leadership is the activity of influencing people to cooperate towards some goal which they come to find desirable and which motivates them over the long haul.

I don't need to be looking at every failure of government, I need to be looking where failure of government needs reform.

Darrell Issa

If China is helping its domestic industries charge an artificially low price for solar panels and other environmental goods, then China is violating international trade rules that it agreed to when it became a member of the World Trade Organization.

Ron Wyden

If I was gay, there would be no closet. You would never see the closet I came out of. Why? Because I'd have burned it for kindling by the time I was twelve... If I was gay, at this stage of the game—age 37, aging alternative icon—I'd be taking out ads.

Henry Rollins

In advertising, not to be different is virtual suicide.

William Bernbach

I think anger and laughter are very close to each other, when you think about it.

Albert Brooks

We're constantly buying airplane tickets we travel on the Concorde.

Eva Herzigova

If something comes to life in others because of you, then you have made an approach to immortality.

Norman Cousins

You are thought here to the most senseless and fit man for the job.

William Shakespeare

I love it when mothers get so mad they can't remember your name. Come here, Roy, er, Rupert, er, Rutabaga... what is your name, boy? And don't lie to me, because you live here, and I'll find out who you are.

Bill Cosby

If you wished to be loved, love.

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Interviewer: So Jeff, what are your main musical influences? Jeff (after a long pause): Love, anger, depression, joy and dreams....And Zeppelin. Totally.

Jeff Buckley

Faith doesn't get you around problems in life and relationships, it gets you through it.

Jonathan Anthony Burkett