"Just when things look darkest, they go black."

— Paul Newman

"In the Name of the God of Mercy, Compassion, Peace, Freedom and Justice. Mr. President, Excellencies, Ladies and Gentlemen, Today we have ga…"

— Mahmoud Ahmadinejad

"'I deserve to be thought a coward. I am a coward. I'm just so bloody afraid of dying — of losing —'"

— Susan Howatch

"They're like the grim reaper when anybody comes they just put them away with ruthless efficiency."

— Colm O'Rourke

"Where a republic demands equality, and equality tends to ensure mobility, oligarchy is about hierarchy and stasis."

— Allen C. Guelzo