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"My budget blueprint will restrain spending, yet meet growing needs with a reasonable 4 percent growth rate, which is a little more than inflation. After paying the bills, my plan reduces the national …"

"I'm looking nothing like ya poppa, I wouldn't give a chick ten cents, to put cheese on a whopper."

"Mason at London's Frontline Club, 23 April 2009"

"Instead of talking about the things that most people care about, we talked about what we cared about most. While parents worried about childcare, getting the kids to school, balancing work and family …"

"To his son Henry, the quality that distinguished his father from all the other figures in the family group, was that, in his opinion, Charles Francis Adams possessed the only perfectly balanced mind t…"

"The storm that hit the United States was the result of every mother or father's prayer, or an orphaned son, or a woman whose honour was taken away in Iraq or Afghanistan."

"The discussion of the game of marbles seems to have led us into rather deep waters. But in the eyes of children the history of the game of marbles has quite as much importance as the history of religi…"

"You and you alone are the sole arbiter of the meaning in your life. The second you turn to someone and say, “What does life mean?” or, “What should my life mean?” you have slipped into a mind-set that…"

"Men of all lands and climes are brothers."

"What are we allowed to do when we’re looking for things we’re required to do?"

"Since the 1970s some seven-hundred-thousand people have signed up for a self-improvement called 'est', or as it's now called 'The Forum.' Est was the brainchild of a former used-car salesman named Jac…"

"So long as the product is sold, everything is taking its regular course from the standpoint of the capitalist producer."

"Did Iraq invade Kuwait because of a lack of information? If a hideous war should ensue between Iraq and the U.S., will it happen because of a lack of information? If children die of starvation in Ethi…"

"I'm sick. It's passed down through my family. I am an addict. I'm sick."

"In 1980 I was a red kid and no one could have said anything bad about the Soviet Union. At least this is how my grandfather used to remember me. Around 1981, I became a pro-capitalist person and it st…"

"But it is the old story of new generations refusing to be bound by the promises of their forefathers."

"In his house he had a large looking-glass, before which he would stand and go through his exercises."

"It was wicked meeting Nelson Mandela."

"God took a child to fondle him in His bosom of delight; but the mother wept and would not be consoled because her child no longer existed."

"Money will accomplish much in business, love and war but it isn't worth a cent in nature. You could plant all the doubloons lost in the Spanish Main on a New England farm and you would not raise a sin…"