Initiative and referendum make government more responsive to its citizens, neutralize the power of the special interests and stimulate public involvement in state issues.

Fool me once, shame on - shame on you. Fool me - you can't get fooled again.

Leadership to me means duty, honor, country. It means character, and it means listening from time to time.

Terrorist attacks can shake the foundations of our biggest buildings, but they cannot touch the foundation of America. These acts shatter steel, but they cannot dent the steel of American resolve.

Freedom itself was attacked this morning by a faceless coward, and freedom will be defended.

Our enemies are innovative and resourceful, and so are we. They never stop thinking about new ways to harm our country and our people, and neither do we.

Freedom is not our gift to the world it is God's gift to humanity.

To those of you who received honours, awards and distinctions, I say, well done. And to the C students, I say, you too can be president of the United States.

I do solemnly swear that I will faithfully execute the Office of President of the United States, and will to the best of my Ability, preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of the United States

A dictatorship would be a heck of a lot easier, there's no question about it.

I believe a marriage is between a man and a woman.

Don't let success go to your heads and don't let failure into your hearts.

They lard their lean books with the fat of others' works.

You've already put more than enough energy into worry. That's all women have been allowed to do, historically.

I want to build a team that's invincible, so that they have to send a team from bloody Mars to beat us.

I discovered Orson Welles in college; my freshman English professor screened 'Citizen Kane' for us, and I wound up writing a 20-page term paper on it.

There is a lack of context in contemporary education. And contemporary consideration - because we live in those interiorities so much. Especially young kids who live by surfing the Web.

A painting works only on the edge of not working. Then what is ungraspable comes near.

A big part of being an actress specifically is feeling entitled to your artistic opinion, feeling that it means something, and being able to stand by it.

High expectations don't bother me at all.

In the landscape of time, there are few locations less comfortable than that of one who waits for some person or event to arrive at some unknown moment in the future.