You cannot transpose the U.S. system on Turkey, and the Turkish system on France etc. You have to understand the people and their culture. That's leadership.

The greatest threat to our Constitution is our own ignorance of it.

Jacob F. Roecker

Baseball happens to be a game of cumulative tension but football, basketball and hockey are played with hand grenades and machine guns.

John Leonard

Let's remember the children who come from broken homes, surrounded by crime, drugs, temptation, their peers having babies out of wedlock, but who still manage to get a good education despite the many obstacles they face every day.

Armstrong Williams

Yet one thing secures us what ever betide, the scriptures assures us the Lord will provide.

Sir Isaac Newton

We never become really and genuinely our entire and honest selves until we are dead -- and not then until we have been dead years and years. People ought to start dead and then they would be honest so much earlier.

Mark Twain

In statesmanship get the formalities right, never mind about the moralities.

Mark Twain

Jealousy is the jaundice of the soul.

John Dryden

Historically, the family has played the primary role in educating children for life, with the school providing supplemental scaffolding to the family.

Stephen Covey

And I myself a Catholic will be,So far at least, great saint, to pray to thee.Hail, Bard triumphant! and some care bestowOn us, the Poets militant below.

Abraham Cowley, On the Death of

If we ever do end up acting just like rats or Pavlov's dogs, it will be largely because behaviorism has conditioned us to do so.

Richard D. Rosen

15 minutes a day! Give me just this and I'll prove I can make you a new man.

Charles Atlas

Obama has made America cool again - and more than that, he's made his own brand arguably the most powerful the world has ever known.

Dee Dee Myers