What the people want is very simple - they want an America as good as its promise.

By giving every American access to quality, affordable health care, they will create a more competitive, a stronger and more secure America!

Tom Allen

Female rappers get it the hardest. You have to be a girl, yet you have to be just as hard as the guys. I think some female rappers get scared out of the business before they can make it.

Nicki Minaj

Freedom just around the corner for you. But with the truth so far off, what good will it do?

Bob Dylan

The upheavals of adolescence silenced 'A Christmas Carol' for a few years. I became a firebrand atheist. Christmas - humbug! Too commercial! Then I became an agnostic. Christmas was a pro-forma affair, basically a chore. Buy mother a book, dad a new tie, my brother and sister small gifts. Pretend thanks for the fountain pens and shirts I received.

Whitley Strieber

Most people don't realize how important librarians are. I ran across a book recently which suggested that the peace and prosperity of a culture was solely related to how many librarians it contained. Possibly a slight overstatement. But a culture that doesn't value its librarians doesn't value ideas and without ideas, well, where are we?

Neil Gaiman

A fool and his money are soon parted.

Thomas Tusser

To really enjoy the better things in life, one must first have experienced the things they are better than.

Oscar Homoka

It is the dissimilarities and inequalities among men which give rise to the notion of honor; as such differences become less, it grows feeble; and when they disappear, it will vanish too.

Alexis de Tocqueville

We are odd compounds full of explosive material to which circumstances may at any time apply a spark, with results undreamed of even by those who thought they knew us best.

Joseph Farrell, Lectures of a Ce

Children are nowhere taught, in any systematic way, to distinguish true from false, or meaningful from meaningless, statements. Why is this so? Because their elders, even in the democratic countries, do not want them to be given this kind of education.

Aldous Huxley

Achieve success in any area of life by identifying the optimum strategies and repeating them until they become habits.

Charles J. Givens

When wealth is lost, nothing is lost when health is lost, something is lost when character is lost, all is lost.

Billy Graham