No one pretends that democracy is perfect or all wise. Indeed, it has been said that democracy is the worst form of Government except all those other forms that have been tried from time to time.

How things look on the outside of us depends on how things are on the inside of us.

Parks Cousins

I intend to travel to Okinawa and to visit with Okinawa officials and the citizens of Okinawa at an early date. I will send my best analysis of that situation, including the local attitudes, back to Washington, to the government there.

Howard Baker

Music is always a reflection of what's going on in the hearts and minds of the culture.

Tori Amos

Stability is not immobility.

Klemens Von Metternich

In communities where men build ships for their own sons to fish or fight from, quality is never a problem

J. A. Dever

To know your place is a good idea in politics. That is not to say stay in your place or hang on to your place, because ambition or boredom may dictate upward or downward mobility, but a sense of place -- a feel for one's own position in the control room -- is useful in gauging what you should try to do.

William Safire

When I speak of 'cycles,' I am referring to lengthy intervals of relative homogeneity, if not in the resolving of problems, than at least with respect to the consistency of their capacity to productively irritate.

Brian Ferneyhough

The value of an arts education is widely accepted, especially in California.

Gavin Newsom

Many folks think they aren't good at earning money, when what they don't know is how to use it.

Frank A. Clark

Intelligence flourishes only in the ages when belief withers.

Emile M. Cioran

The world is my country, all mankind are my brethren, and to do good is my religion.

Thomas Paine

When the people fear their government, there is tyranny; when the government fears the people, there is liberty.

Thomas Jefferson