The more killing and homicides you have, the more havoc it prevents.

If you cut funding to libraries, you cut the lifeblood of our communities.

I've given it my all. I've done my best. Now, I'm ready with my family to begin the next phase of our lives.

I don't fight the suburban areas or collar counties. I get along with them; they're former Chicagoans anyway.

Why should a city be mandated to do something by the federal government or state government without the money to do it?

We are going to sign a treaty with Mexico. We are competing internationally. We need another international airport for international cargo, international travel, international businesses.

What could there be in this document written by a young girl in 1917?

I never wanted to do biography just to tell the life of a famous man. I always wanted to use the life of a man to examine political power, because democracy shapes our lives.

If your government had given me a thousandth of the sum it spent to depose me, I could have won that war.

You can get through very serious and sometimes horrible and sometimes embarrassing and very awkward situations with humor. It gives us a way out.

To maintain a fault known is a double fault.

Blind mouths! That scarce themselves know how to hold A sheep-hook.

The first CD I had, that I think had had any redeeming qualities to it, I did when I was 25 with a relatively small label called Chiarascuro.

Fear of disease killed more men than disease itself.

First, only invest in companies that have the potential to return the value of the entire fund.

You want all your books to stick around after you've gone.