I started out mopping floors, waiting tables, and tending bar at my dad's tavern. I put myself through school working odd jobs and night shifts. I poured my heart and soul into a small business. And when I saw how out-of-touch Washington had become with the core values of this great nation, I put my name forward and ran for office.

It was the dumbest thing I had ever seen, but it's a family thing, and I guess it's clean.

Barbara Bush

The most important service rendered by the press and the magazines is that of educating people to approach printed matter with distrust.

Samuel Butler

I love those who do not know how to live for today.

Friedrich Nietzsche

It would be difficult for me not to conclude that the most perfect type of masculine beauty is Satan, as portrayed by Milton.

Charles Baudelaire

There is nothing which can better deserve our patronage than the promotion of science and literature. Knowledge is in every country the surest basis of public happiness.

George Washington

We need to give each other the space to grow, to be ourselves, to exercise our diversity. We need to give each other space so that we may both give and receive such beautiful things as ideas, openness, dignity, joy, healing, and inclusion.

Max de Pree

Widespread state control over art and culture has left no room for freedom of expression in the country. For more than 60 years, anyone with a dissenting opinion has been suppressed. Chinese art is merely a product: it avoids any meaningful engagement. There is no larger context. Its only purpose is to charm viewers with its ambiguity.

Ai Weiwei

The reality of split government puts a premium on creativity within the administration. President Obama needs to put the right people in charge of the agencies and then have them push the bounds of administrative power to change policy through those agencies. President Obama has a pretty good track record of this.

Eliot Spitzer

Let us play hide and seek in a mountain which is like a women's back.

Santosh Kalwar

A man who has not passed through the inferno of his passions has never overcome them.

Carl Gustav Jung

Religion is organized to satisfy and guide the soul -- politics does the same thing for the body.

Joyce Cary

Bad officials are elected by good citizens who do not vote.

George Jean Nathan