Public opinion is presumptively an input to policy formation in a democracy because politicians respond to it or at least are believed to respond [to it].

Life is not a multiple choice test, it's an open-book essay exam.

The last duty of a central banker is to tell the public the truth.

If you try to give an on-the-one-hand-or-the-other- hand answer, only one of the hands tends to get quoted.

There is a kind of a cascading chain, ... If one can't sell, then that business doesn't buy and that means the next business doesn't sell, and the previous business doesn't sell, and so on.

We have a love-shaped hole within us.

Loving a man shouldn't have to be this rough

The only people we want to blame are ourselves, because it will be ourselves that we rely upon.

The difference between champions and everyone else is that champions are never afraid of losing, while everyone else is afraid of winning.

Love and compassion are the pillars of world peace.

Drawn to childhood, the old man will seek it in a thousand different ways.

How feeble is all language to describe the horrors we inflict upon these wretches, whom we mason up in the cells of our prisons, and condemn to perpetual solitude in the very heart of our population.

You must take risks, both with your own money or with borrowed money. Risk taking is essential to business growth.

I'm still true to my Southern roots.

This album [Stroll] and all my songs that break barriers are more reflective of my personality.