People are ready to say, 'Yes, we are ready for single-payer health insurance.' We are the only industrialized country in the world that does not have national health insurance. We are the richest in wealth and the poorest in health of all the industrial nations.

Some people wave their dogmatic thinking until their own reason is entangled.

Samuel Johnson

Only so much of life do I know as I have lived.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

I was always trying to make up for my size, to compensate. So to get people to take you seriously, you have to come at things with a great deal of strength. You have to emphasize that the way you are is unusual. That you don't come along every day.

Linda Hunt

Make no more giants, God!But elevate the race at once!

Robert Browning

And we were poor too. Why, if I wasn't born a boy...I'd have nothing to play with!

Rodney Dangerfield

Don't you stay at home of evenings? Don you love a cushioned seat in a corner, by the fireside, with your slippers on your feet?

Oliver Wendell Holmes

Every child grows everything depends on the teacher.

Shinichi Suzuki

One of the things that is wrong with religion is that it teaches us to be satisfied with answers which are not really answers at all.

Richard Dawkins

All my possessions for a moment of time.

Queen Elizabeth

First of all, the music that people call Latin or Spanish is really African. So Black people need to get the credit for that.

Carlos Santana

The red carpet is kind of a surreal experience. There's nothing normal about it, so for me the most important thing is to maintain some normality right until the point you get out of the car.

Samantha Barks

In this life and death case, I felt Mrs. Schiavo should receive the fullest due process from our legal system.

Paul Gillmor