The whole point about corruption in politics is that it can't be done, or done properly, without a bipartisan consensus.

Those of us who are most genuinely repelled by war and violence are also those who are most likely to decide that some things, after all, are worth fighting for.

You don't say 'they all do it' unless you know you've been doing it too.

Control over the production and distribution of oil is the decisive factor in defining who rules whom in the Middle East.

The only people truly bound by campaign promises are the voters who believe them.

The point of protesting about 'moral equivalence' is surely not to blur moral choices on ‘our side’. Is it?

She taught me only how to need to be taken care of. I was here because I needed to learn to take responsibility for making my own decisions — to earn my own trust.

Our yesterday's to-morrow now is gone, And still a new to-morrow does come on. We by to-morrow draw out all our store, Till the exhausted well can yield no more.

Southerners have many fine qualities, charm and civility among them, and a sense of the tragic.

If it were not for uncertainties, we would have no need to walk by faith.

Once your name gets out, people just want to crack you.

You could build three hospitals with the cost of one film and I take that very seriously.

The finished man, you know, is difficult to please; a growing mind will ever show you gratitude. --Faust 1, lines 182-3

I am Emperor, my descendants will be numerous. From the second generation to the ten thousandth, my line will not end.

'Tis the business of little minds to shrink; but he whose heart is firm, and whose conscience approves his conduct, will pursue his principles unto death.

His eyes were bright, and, indeed, he scarcely knew whether they held dreams or realities...and in five minutes she had filled the shell of the old dream with the flesh of life.