Much is said about English severity, but not a word about Irish provocation.

Agitation is the marshalling of the conscience of a nation to mold its laws.

The police are the public and the public are the police.

Public opinion is a compound of folly, weakness, prejudice, wrong feeling, right feeling, obstinacy, and newspaper paragraphs.

In every village there will arise a miscreant to establish the most grinding tyranny by calling himself the people.

I never knew a man escape failures, in either mind or body, who worked seven days in a week.

No minister ever stood, or could stand, against public opinion.

The distinction of being without an honour is becoming a rare and valuable one and should not become extinct.

Of all the vulgar arts of government, that of solving every difficulty that might arise by thrusting the hand into the public purse is the most illusory and contemptible.

Can there be a more lamentable picture than that of a Chancellor of the Exchequer seated on an empty chest by a pool of bottomless deficiency fishing for a budget?

There seem to me to be very few facts, at least ascertainable facts, in politics.

A touch less ego and dash more humility will improve the quality of anything you turn your hand to.

Sometimes I'm so deeply buried under self-reproaches that I long for a word of comfort to help me dig myself out again.

Some people have enough dust on their bibles to write damnation on it.

Numbersign questionmark you" and "Asterisk exclamation point the world.

Karate has helped me lots, otherwise I might have got lost in substance abuse or something like the things a lot of other people do.

Innovation is very important to me, especially professionally. The alternative, standing pat, leads to complacency, rigidity and eventually failure.

In baiting a mousetrap with cheese, always leave room for the mouse.

I wish we weren't fighting all the time to protect women's rights, to protect women's health.

Some movies are the kind you take home with you at the end of the day, and some, you can let go.

I hate to be enclosed. I don't like bathroom doors - I don't shut them. In fact, in my house, I have no doors.