The dog that trots about finds a bone.
You know, I don't mind dying. The thing that pisses me off is that I won't get to be an old man. I was looking forward to that.
Facts are facts: No president since Franklin Delano Roosevelt in the Great Depression inherited a worse economy, bigger job losses or deeper problems from his predecessor. But President Obama is moving America forward, not back.
Put simply, the rich pay a lot of taxes as a total percentage of taxes collected, but they don't pay a lot of taxes as a percentage of what they can afford to pay, or as a percentage of what the government needs to close the deficit gap.
As the U.S. ambassador to Japan, I see this challenge of our younger generations not knowing each other as well as the prior generations.
It may be laid down as a primary position, and the basis of our system, that every Citizen who enjoys the protection of a Free Government, owes not only a proportion of his property, but even of his personal services to the defense of it.
When language was not transcendental enough to complete the meaning of a revelation, symbols were relied upon for heavenly teaching, and familiar images, chosen from the known, were made to mirror the unknown spiritual truth.
You've got to have a vision. You've got to have a message.
There are no factions in the Liberal Party.
Real economic stimulus comes from real investment.
My touchstone for every question is the Constitution.
I was in the underground until I left Germany.
My nomination to be Governor was not to gratify ambition.
It's my job as governor to set a vision.
The art of conversation lies in listening
We'll all be riding that streetcar of desire.
It is one of my sources of happiness never to desire a knowledge of other people's business.
Most folks are as happy as they make up their minds to be.
The greater part of our happiness or misery depends on our dispositions and not our circumstances.
The Columbia is lost, but the dreams that inspired its crew remain with us.
Am I not destroying my enemies when I make friends of them?
