Resilience is accepting your new reality, even if it's less good than the one you had before.
I have always argued, in a good novel, interesting things happen to interesting people.
I don't need to be asking for money for local museums and other projects just to make me look good back home.
There is a growing sense among Americans outside the Beltway that while President Obama may be a good talker, he is a lousy manager.
Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama are two peas in the same pod, and the American people have tasted that, and said, 'Look, that's not a good taste.'
Money is power, and in that government which pays all the public officers of the states will all political power be substantially concentrated.
The first lesson in civics is that efficient government begins at home.
Syria should not belong to one family, to one coterie, or to one party. It belongs to all the people of Syria equally, in all their religious and ethnic diversity.
My father has been the real anchor of the family. He's the one who has always encouraged my mother, my brother and me.
Wall Street has too much wealth and political power.
If I finance a bank and I know if the bank will get in trouble, I will be hit and I will lose money, I will put a price on that.
The Republican Party is not in the hands of the Jewish lobby in America as the Democratic Party must look quite often to Jewish money to finance candidates.
French Yemeni relations are strong and good, they are relations depending on friendship and cooperation; my relationship with the president Chiraq are old and real.
Throughout its history, the international Olympic Committee has struggled to spread its ideal of fraternity, friendship, peace and universal understanding.
At the beginning of the new century, it is the common aspiration of the peoples of the two countries to deepen mutual understanding, enhance trust, develop friendship and strengthen cooperation.
We've begun to put fear into those whites who think they can do anything they want to a black person and get away with it.
I fear that the hearts of the vast majority of mankind would beat on strongly and steadily and without any quickening if the league were to perish altogether.
I try to avoid saying anything positive about any presidential candidate for fear that if I actually like them then I will kill their campaign.
The library is seen as a force for self improvement and the pursuit of knowledge. I fear that in many cases this is no longer true, if it ever was.
Uncertainty and fear and ignorance about immigrants, about people who are different, has a history as old as our Nation.
My fear is that if we don't take remedial steps to control polio in the tribal areas, we will be faced with international sanctions.
