Today enormous effort goes into convincing the American public that we're just consumers of media manipulation and sound-bites and spin doctors. That we care only about ourselves, money, and stuff. That acting out of passion and conviction doesn't make a difference. But all history shows that it does.

Men have an extraordinarily erroneous opinion of their position in nature; and the error is ineradicable.

W. Somerset Maugham

I wanted to perform well for my mom and dad, because in high school, I didn't have a job. My brothers, they worked at Pizza Hut or places like that, but sports, that was my way of giving back.

Junior Seau

The people have always some champion whom they set over them and nurse into greatness...This and no other is the root from which a tyrant springs when he first appears he is a protector.

Plato

Patriotism in America, as I understand it, is a matter of suffering, when the country fails to live up to its promises, or actively betrays them.

Greil Marcus

Whether a glass is half full or half empty depends on the attitude of the person looking at it.

Source Unknown

I get satisfaction out of seeing stuff that makes real change in the real world. We need a lot more of that and a lot less abstract stuff.

Temple Grandin

In America, anybody can be president. That's one of the risks you take.

Adlai Stevenson

You can't rely just on talent to win.

Scott Young

Promises are the uniquely human way of ordering the future, making it predictable and reliable to the extent that this is humanly possible.

Hannah Arendt

But a lifetime of happiness! No man alive could bear it: it would be hell on earth.

George Bernard Shaw

Virtue has never been as respectable as money.

Mark Twain

I stand before you today because this vision of government as the engine of opportunity is what I believe in.

Eliot Spitzer