We need a vibrant Medicaid program and strategies to expand affordable access to health care for all, especially for the specialty care services that community health centers do not provide.

American grammar doesn't have the sturdiness of British grammar (a British advertising man with a proper education can make magazine copy for ribbed condoms sound like the Magna goddam Carta), but it has its own scruffy charm

Stephen King

The idiot who praises, with enthusiastic tone, All centuries but this, and every country but his own.

W. S. Gilbert

Hard writing makes easy reading. Easy writing makes hard reading.

William Zinsser

You cannot prevent the birds of sorrow from flying over your head, but you can prevent them from building nests in your hair.Also seen as: You cannot prevent the birds of worry and care from flying over your head. But you can stop them from building a nest in your head.

Chinese Proverb

When a man moves away from nature his heart becomes hard.

American Indian Proverb, Lakota

If you're going to hit a car, try to be sure that it's not a cop car

Judy Gold

You can only rule over a subject race, especially when you are in a small minority, if you honestly believe yourself to be racially superior, and it helps towards this if you can believe that the subject race is biologically different.

George Orwell

Further Education should be about the ability to learn, not the ability to pay - everyone who is able should have the opportunity, regardless of their family background. I don't want to see students struggling with huge debts or frightened off even going to university in the first place.

Charles Kennedy

We may be through with the past, but the past is not through with us. Ideas of the Stone Age exist side by side with the latest scientific thought. Only a fraction of mankind has emerged from the Dark Ages, and in the most lucid brains, as Logan Pearsall Smith has said, we come upon nests of woolly caterpillars. Seemingly sane men entrust their wealth to stargazers and their health to witch doctors. Giant planes throb through the stratosphere, but half their passengers are wearing magic amulets and are protected from harm by voodoo incantations. Hotels boast of express elevators and a telephone in every room, but omit thirteen from all floor and room numbers lest their guests be ill at ease.

Bergen Evans, The Natural Histor

People always comment about my clothes. They don't think a fashionable woman can love food and be knowledgeable and actually cook.

Padma Lakshmi

Wars are poor chisels for carving out peaceful tomorrows.

Martin Luther King Jr.

Perhaps in time the so-called Dark Ages will be thought of as including our own.

Georg C. Lichtenberg