The reason Gov. Romney passed Romneycare as governor of Massachusetts in 2006 was because many Republicans viewed health care reform, mandates and all, as a way to inoculate against Democratic charges that Republicans didn't care about people who lacked health insurance.

What matters most in politics is personality. It's not issues it's not image. It's who you are and what you represent.

Frank Luntz

All things being equal, people will do business with a friend; all things being unequal, people will still do business with a friend.

Mark Mccormack

Hence poetry is something more philosophic and of graver import than history, since its statements are rather of the nature of universals, whereas those of history are singulars.

Aristotle

I was never too keen on the British music press. They've called us a supermarket hype, and they used to suggest that we didn't write our own songs.

Freddie Mercury

Everybody thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing themselves.

Leo Tolstoy

It is amazing that people who think we cannot afford to pay for doctors, hospitals, and medication somehow think that we can afford to pay for doctors, hospitals, medication and a government bureaucracy to administer it.

Thomas Sowell

But if something funny happens, I can't resist. I have to tell the people.

Kathy Griffin

In a World where people are surrounded by darkness, ignorance and fear, it is a sign of hope to be celebrating Islam's message of peace and light, and the last great Messenger, born and chosen to deliver them to all mankind.

Cat Stevens

Who then is free? The wise man who can govern himself.

Horace

It is as impossible for a man to be cheated by any one but himself, as for a thing to be and not to be at the same time

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Our defense is in the preservation of the spirit which prizes liberty as a heritage of all men, in all lands, everywhere. Destroy this spirit and you have planted the seeds of despotism around your own doors.

Abraham Lincoln

Africa has no future.

V. S. Naipaul