Representative William McK. Springer, remarks in the House, quoting Henry Clay: As for me, I would rather be right than be President. Reed: Well, the gentleman will never be either.
A man’s penmanship is an unfailing index of his character, moral and mental, and a criterion by which to judge his peculiarities of taste and sentiments.
In the midst of life we are in debt.
The happiest and most contented people are those who each day perform to make the best of their abilities.
I like computers. It’s the first time that I am endorsing a computer brand. I am very computer savvy, so this is certainly up my ally.
The sinner will not confess, nor will the priest receive his confession, if the veil of secrecy is removed.
It may be that these loan arrangements conform to the letter of the law, but they do not conform to the spirit of the law and to the principle of transparency on which it is based.
In foreign affairs, the president can do what he wants unless Congress says no. In domestic policy, the president can’t do anything unless Congress says yes.
In the wiretapping, despite all the momentum for a more assertive Congress, you’re seeing Congress backing down, because there are many Republicans and even Democrats who are afraid of being seen as preventing the president from protecting the nation.
When it is not necessary to amend the Constitution, it is necessary not to amend the Constitution.
There is no right by the federal or state constitution to manual recounts. There is no law that says that you must count dimpled ballots, constitutional or otherwise.
Rarely has a people paid the lavish compliment and taken the subtle revenge of turning its oppressor’s speech into sorcery.
When a woman talks, she just wants to be heard.
United States is a great Country and has its effective role on the international arena, so we have to boost our relations with it, in order to achieve peace and stability in our region and the world.
Iraq may get peace and stability through restoring it’s sovereignty under participation of all Iraqi factions and sectarian groups, who must rebuild a new democratic, free and independent Iraq.
Adolescence is society’s permission slip for combining physical maturity with psychological irresponsibility.
Mutual aid is as much a law of animal life as mutual struggle.
The real process of making decisions, of gathering support, of developing opinions, happens before the meeting or after.
Doing leads more surely to talking than talking to doing.
The US has not imposed democracy in Yemen, its people have.