He was one of those men who possess almost every gift, except the gift of the power to use them.

It only takes a politician believing in what he says for the others to stop believing him.

Jean Baudrillard

It doesn't work if the bad guys kill his mother's uncle's friend's neighbor's pet dog. You've got to make the stakes high.

Steven Seagal

I really wanted to just be a musician. I didn't want to be anything else, but I was funny and all that.

Jamie Foxx

What they do in heaven we are ignorant of; what they do not do we are told expressly.

Jonathan Swift

When you put down the good things you ought to have done, and leave out the bad ones you did do well, that's Memoirs.

Will Rogers

In his library he had been always sure of leisure and tranquility; and though prepared, as he told Elizabeth, to meet with folly and conceit in every other room in the house, he was used to be free from them there

Jane Austen

We must always emphasize research and development of science and mathematics, and I can think of no better way to achieve this than through our future in space.

Nick Lampson

I know well the coequal role of the Congress in our constitutional process. I love the House of Representatives. I revere the traditions of the Senate despite my too-short internship in that great body. As President, within the limits of basic principles, my motto toward the Congress is communication, conciliation, compromise, and cooperation.

Gerald R. Ford

Union gives strength.

Aesop

Virtue must be valuable, if men and women of all degrees pretend to have it.

Edward W. Howe

Everybody has a weakness. Mine is food.

Salma Hayek

To the generous mind the heaviest debt is that of gratitude, when it is not in our power to repay it.

Benjamin Franklin