If you would lift me up you must be on higher ground.

If you believe that health care is a public good to be guaranteed by the state, then a single-payer system is the next best alternative. Unfortunately, it is fiscally unsustainable without rationing.

Charles Krauthammer

I think for voters what matters is the values that drive the government.

Theresa May

I was always interested in French poetry sort of as a sideline to my own work, I was translating contemporary French poets. That kind of spilled out into translation as a way to earn money, pay for food and put bread on the table.

Paul Auster

No man is good enough to govern another man without that other's consent.

Abraham Lincoln

A life of reaction is a life of slavery, intellectually and spiritually. One must fight for a life of action, not reaction.

Rita Mae Brown

Ignorance, intolerance, egotism, self-assertion, opaque perception, dense and pitiful chuckle headedness - and an almost pathetic unconsciousness of it all, that is what I was at nineteen and twenty

Mark Twain

If this liberal potential is properly channeled, we may expect the area of freedom of the United States to increase. The problem is to spend up our rate of social invention in the service of the welfare of all the people.

Henry A. Wallace

Absence is one of the most useful ingredients of family life, and to dose it rightly is an art like any other.

Freya Stark

What a magnificent body, how I should like to see it on the dissecting table.

Ivan Turgenev

Adlai Stevenson has a genius for saying the right thing, at the right time, to the wrong people.

Joe E. Lewis

In a meadow full of flowers, you cannot walk through and breathe those smells and see all those colors and remain angry. We have to support the beauty, the poetry, of life.

Jonas Mekas

Fathers are biological necessities, but social accidents.

Margaret Mead