We reward people for making money off money, and moving money around and dividing up mortgages a thousand times over, selling it to China. . . and it becomes this shell game.
We shall be judged more by what we do at home than what we preach abroad.
If a free society cannot help the many who are poor, it cannot save the few who are rich.
No matter how big the lie; repeat it often enough and the masses will regard it as the truth.
This is not a time to keep the facts from the people-to keep them complacent. To sound the alarm is not to panic but to seek action from an aroused public. For, as the poet Dante once said: 'The hottest places in hell are reserved for those who, in a time of great moral crisis, maintain their neutrality.
One person can make a difference, and everyone should try.
Let us not seek the Republican answer or the Democratic answer, but the right answer. Let us not seek to fix the blame for the past. Let us accept our own responsibility for the future.
A careless shoe string, in whose tie I see a wilde civility.
Sleep is like a cat: It only comes to you if you ignore it.
So who are you then, Todd Hewitt?" he says. "What makes you so special?" Now that, I think, is a very good asking.
I've never found it made the slightest difference being a woman - though there is a sort of feeling that as you get older you're not so interesting.