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

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.

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.

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

Nature provides exceptions to every rule.

In our need to be somebody, we often forget that we are somebody.

I had a dream, which seemed so real, I was King of the world, so full of appeal, Upon waking I found I wasn't alone, In a kingdom called Home, sitting on a throne.

By disregarding intuition in favor of science, or science in favor of instincts, we limit ourselves.

Sometimes the Earth trembles; sometimes you can feel it breathe.

Could a dream kill a man? Could it strangle him where he sat sleeping?

The conflict between the principle of liberty and the fact of slavery is coming gradually to an issue. Slavery has now the power, and falls into convulsions at the approach of freedom.

The ideal photographic document would appear to be without author or art.

To be different is to have value. In this sense all things have equal, absolute value. Each thing has absolute value and thus is equal to everything else.

In the black culture, certain kids are given nicknames that they roll with forever; the nicknames outweigh their real names. I'm one of those scenarios.