Let's just do what is right for the American people. And those of us who are involved in politics and government know that our responsibility is to the American people, that we have a responsibility to find our common ground, to seek it and to find it.

So I think democracy, in the long-term, in our countries will survive if it comes to be associated with leadership, will not survive if democracy plus media brings to us more and more followship rather than leadership.

Mario Monti

Sometimes a strange light shines, purer than the moon, casting no shadow, that is the halo upon the bones of the pioneers who died for truth.

R. S. Thomas

Do your damnedest in an ostentatious manner all the time.

George S. Patton

It starts with campaign finance reform.

Zack Space

They have had such a crazy life living with me as their dad. Not crazy but different from their friends.

Sebastian Bach

If we want to address global warming, along with the other environmental problems associated with our continued rush to burn our precious fossil fuels as quickly as possible, we must learn to use our resources more wisely, kick our addiction, and quickly start turning to sources of energy that have fewer negative impacts.

David Suzuki

Christmas can be celebrated in the school room with pine trees, tinsel and reindeers, but there must be no mention of the man whose birthday is being celebrated. One wonders how a teacher would answer if a student asked why it was called Christmas.

Ronald Reagan

I now understand what Christ suffered in Gethsemane as well as any man living.

James Keir Hardie

The only way to prove that you're a good sport is to lose.

Ernie Banks

Rhyme, that enslaved queen, that supreme charm of our poetry, that creator of our meter.

Victor Hugo

You don’t have to be brilliant, only a little bit wiser than the other guys, on average, for a long, long time.

Charlie Munger

I believe in prayer. It's the best way we have to draw strength from heaven.

Josephine Baker