We are all used to paying a sales tax when we buy things - almost 9 percent here in New York City. The application of this concept to the financial sector could solve our need for revenue, bring some sanity back into the financial sector, and give us a way to raise the revenue we need to run the government in a fiscally responsible way.

Obedience is a word and concept from which the valiant look for their deliverance.

Source Unknown

If you read back in the Bible, the letter of the apostle Paul to the church of Thessalonia, he said that in the latter days before the end of the age that the Earth would be caught up in what he called the birth pangs of a new order.

Pat Robertson

The Constitution is the guide which I never will abandon.

George Washington

Act as if you have already achieved your goal and it is yours.

Dr. Robert Anthony

White House operatives went to great lengths to show Obama shifting focus from wars abroad to domestic issues at home.

Ron Fournier

A little incompatibility is the spice of life, as long as he has income and she is pattable.

Ogden Nash

What light is to the eyes

Robert G. Ingersoll

The very first things that I did, even in theater, were bad guys. They are meaty roles for the most part. With the bad guy you have more freedom to experiment and go further out than with a good guy.

Benicio Del Toro

The applause of a single human being is of great consequence.

Samuel Johnson

And to all this she must yet add something more substantial, in the improvement of her mind by extensive reading.

Jane Austen

She heard him mutter, 'Can you take away this grief?''I'm sorry,' she replied. 'Everyone asks me. And I would not do so even if I knew how. It belongs to you. Only time and tears take away grief; that is what they are for.

Terry Pratchett

During the decades after Brown v. Board of Education there was terrific progress. Tens of thousands of public schools were integrated racially. During that time the gap between black and white achievement narrowed.

Jonathan Kozol