In the past week it has become clear that the vote on the final healthcare bill will be very close. I take this vote with the utmost seriousness. I am quite aware of the historic fight that has lasted the better part of the last century to bring America in line with other modern democracies in providing single payer health care.

I saw these terrible things,and took great part in them.

Virgil

I know exactly where I've come from, I know exactly who my mum and dad are.

Christopher Eccleston

The public must and will be served.

William Penn

My words fly up, my thoughts remain below Words without thoughts never to heaven go.

William Shakespeare

STOP wishing for a better tomorrow...when you can keep working for a better today!

Timothy Pina

I find it unusual that it is more socially acceptable to complain about what you have than it is to ask for what you want.

Phil Lout

The opera is to music what a bawdy house is to a cathedral.

H. L. Mencken

Behold I do not give lectures or a little charity, When I give I give myself.

Walt Whitman

He who risks and fails can be forgiven. He who never risks and never fails is a failure in his whole being.

Paul Tillich

The best way to destroy the capitalist system is to debauch the currency. By a continuing process of inflation governments can confiscate, secretly and unobserved, an important part of the wealth of their citizens.

John Maynard Keynes

I may say Christianity itself divided into its thousands also, who are disputing, anathematizing and where the laws permit burning and torturing one another for abstractions which no one of them understand, and which are indeed beyond the comprehension of the human mind

Thomas Jefferson

Someday, someday, this crazy world will have to end, And our God will take things back that He to us did lend. And if, on that sad day, you want to scold our God, Why go right ahead and scold Him. He'll just smile and nod.

Kurt Vonnegut