Washington is no place for a good actor. The competition from bad actors is too great.

In a bet there is a fool and a thief.

Anonymous

Energy and persistence conquer all thing.

Benjamin Franklin

I'll take fifty percent efficiency to get one hundred percent loyalty.

Samuel Goldwyn

Man is the only creature who has a nasty mind.

Mark Twain

Wood burns because it has the proper stuff in it; and a man becomes famous because he has the proper stuff in him.

Johann von Goethe

One of the dreams of Zionism was to be a bridge. Instead, we are creating exclusion between the East and the West instead of creating bridges we are contributing to the conflict between East and West by our stupid desire to have more.

A. B. Yehoshua

No amount of political freedom will satisfy the hungry masses.

Lenin (Vladimir Ulyanov)

The way to kill a man or a nation is to cut off his dreams, the way the whites are taking care of the Indians: killing their dreams, their magic, their familiar spirits.

William S. Burroughs

To long for that which comes not. To lie a-bed and sleep not. To serve well and please not. To have a horse that goes not. To have a man obeys not. To lie in jail and hope not. To be sick and recover not. To lose one's way and know not. To wait at door and enter not, and to have a friend we trust not: are ten such spites as hell hath not.

John Florio

The President's speech suggested to me that were we to follow his leadership, we will be in Iraq not for months, but for years. I also hope I am wrong on this.

Daniel Inouye

It was like there was a pile of kindling that was in the back of my imagination just waiting there. Once I lit it, it just flared up and I kept getting ideas and ideas.

Kevin J. Anderson

There are a few ironclad rules of diplomancy but to one there is no exception. When an official reports that talks were useful, it can safely be concluded that nothing was accomplished.

John Kenneth Galbraith