It always takes a scandal to bring about reform.

It's an intolerable abuse of power to have employees who are supposed to be advancing the public interest actually working on political campaigns.

I cant solve the poverty problem, but there are things you can do to mitigate its effects on kids.

If the City Council wants to hold the police accountable, it has the subpoena power and oversight responsibility to do so. They don't have the courage to do it.

So because you are converting it, you are winning back your time.

Where does it stop? You get offered money for your wedding, then for your kids, new houses, holidays... We earn enough from football and sponsorships, why do you need any more?

Books are the curse of the human race.

I would close every recruiting station, disband the Army, and disarm the Air Force. I would abolish the whole dreadful equipment of war, and say to the world; 'Do your worst!'

I got a very good life. I sold plenty of records, I get recognized plenty, I can always have somebody call up and get me a fine table at a restaurant. What do you really need, ultimately?

Children, when they are little, they make parents fools; when great, mad.

It was the first time that I had ever been romantically kissed. It was even better than the chocolate cake.

It's not just modern-day society that is liberal.

This immigration business has been going on in the UK much in advance of the European Union making an issue of it.

Ensure that you do things differently from everyone else