The power confided in me will be used to hold, occupy and possess the property and places belonging to the government, and to collect the duties and imposts.

Arrogance, pedantry, and dogmatism... the occupational diseases of those who spend their lives directing the intellects of the young.

Henry S. Canby

My personality, when tasked with creating meals, goes something like this: Is there a way we can make this more difficult? Because let's do that. I don't mean to complicate things. It's just - why buy pre-packaged potato salad when you can spend your morning boiling potatoes and flipping out because there's no dill in the house?

Sloane Crosley

When an opera star sings her head off, she usually improves her appearance.

Victor Borge

I have never regarded politics as the arena of morals. It is the arena of interest.

Aneurin Bevan

Cruel, but composed and bland,Dumb, inscrutable and grand,So Tiberius might have sat,Had Tiberius been a cat.

Matthew Arnold

Obama has been attacked repeatedly for not wearing a flag pin, with Republicans claiming that his patriotism is in question. It's all a bit silly.

Will Thomas

I feel, in the end, as if everything I've done has been a failure.

Jonathan Kozol

With prophecies the commentator is often a more important man than the prophet.

G. C. (Georg Christoph) Lichtenb

The message of transformation and how we all can live from our heart, not just from our head, was a very important message for me to learn in my own life.

Judith Light

My father always said that government is like watching another man piss in your boot. Someone feels better but it certainly isn't you.

Orson Scott Card

There are risks and costs to a program of action. But they are far less than the long-range risks and costs of comfortable inaction.

John Fitzgerald Kennedy

Man lies down and does not rise until the heavens are no more. They will not awake nor arise from their sleep.

James Dye