I rise today to discuss the National Intelligence Reform bill. I commend my colleagues in both Houses for their hard work in coming to an agreement. As with any conference, each voice is heard, but none can dominate and compromise must be achieved.

There's no learning without trying lots of ideas and failing lots of times.

Jonathan Ive

No people can be great who have ceased to be virtuous

Samuel Johnson

There is only one kind of shock worse than the totally unexpected: the expected for which one has refused to prepare.

Mary Renault

I want to be recognized as the best-no doubt about it. When they say all-pro middle linebacker, I want them to mean Butkus!

Dick Butkus

It is a vain hope to make people happy by politics.

Thomas Carlyle

Humility is not my forte, and whenever I dwell for any length of time on my own shortcomings, they gradually begin to seem mild, harmless, rather engaging little things, not at all like the staring defects in other people's characters.

Margaret Halsey

My success was not based so much on any great intelligence but on great common sense.

Helen Gurley Brown

I hope I presented what I felt the woman seemed to be about, but I couldn't give any reason as to why she remained in the relationship other than that their relationship was very special.

Jenny Agutter

I've been pleased to work with so many wonderful stars through the years. This has been an amazing journey. I hope it continues.

Keanu Reeves

Non-cooperation with evil is as much a duty as is cooperation with good.

Mahatma Gandhi

Who would have guessed that four minutes could change everything?

Jennifer E. Smith

Morality is everywhere the same for all men, therefore it comes from God; sects differ, therefore they are the work of men.

Voltaire