I have worked to expand the health care debate beyond the current for-profit system, to include a public option and an amendment to free the states to pursue single payer.

When I see a bird that walks like a duck and swims like a duck and quacks like a duck, I call that bird a duck.

James Whitcomb Riley

A friend doesn't go on a diet because you are fat.

Erma Bombeck

Catastrophes come when some dominant institution, swollen like a soap-bubble and still standing without foundations, suddenly crumbles at the touch of what may seem a word or an idea, but is really some stronger material force.

George Santayana, Persons and Pl

When we lose one we love, our bitterest tears are called forth by the memory of hours when we loved not enough.

Maurice Maeterlinck

Who knows, the mind has the key to all things besides.

Amos Bronson Alcott

A good book is the best of friends, the same today and for ever.

Martin Tupper

I also turn down what's probably a good amount of coinage to be made out of playing dads, an incredible number of obnoxious dad.

Bill Pullman

The things I want to know are in books; my best friend is the man who'll get me a book I ain't read.

Abraham Lincoln

Everyone likes flattery; and when you come to Royalty you should lay it on with a trowel.

Benjamin Disraeli

Science Fiction will never run out of things to wonder about until the human race ceases to use its brain.

Julian May

Who can guess how much industry and providence and affection we have caught from the pantomime of brutes?

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Necessity, who is the mother of invention.

Plato