I was a queen, and you took away my crown; a wife, and you killed my husband; a mother, and you deprived me of my children. My blood alone remains: take it, but do not make me suffer long.
There is more selfishness and less principle among members of Congress than I had any conception of, before I became President of the U.S.
By making yourself better, that's how you make your team better.
If you look at the origins of the postal service in the U.S., the founding fathers created it to protect democratic rights.
One great object of the Constitution was to restrain majorities from oppressing minorities or encroaching upon their just rights.
Peace, plenty, and contentment reign throughout our borders, and our beloved country presents a sublime moral spectacle to the world.
If the Islamic world is so suffused with rage and hatred of us - for our wars, occupations, drone attacks, support of Israel, decadent culture, and tolerance of insults to Islam and the Prophet - why should we call for free elections, when the people will use those elections to vote into power rulers hostile to the United States?
Anti-Catholicism is the anti-Semitism of the intellectual.
Saying the Washington Post is just a newspaper is like saying Rasputin was just a country priest.
I think everything that happens, happens for a reason.
You never know when your time is going to come, if it's going to come, so when it does, you have to take advantage of it.
I cannot adequately express the horror I feel for a man who can be so base as to veil his hypocrisy under the cloak of religion, and state the base falsehood he has done.
For Americans of the Greatest Generation that fought World War II and of the Silent Generation that came of age in the 1950s, the great moral and ideological cause was the Cold War. It gave purpose and clarity to our politics and foreign policy, and our lives.
Many Muslims put their Islamic faith ahead of their national identity and forbid preachers from other religions from coming into their countries to convert their young. Apostasy is treason to Allah. Heresy has no rights.
Just like my agent had told me, Tom Brady is a really cool, down to earth guy.
I like to think I'm pretty close in comparison to Aaron Rodgers. He's very athletic and gets the ball out quickly. He's very knowledgeable of the game, controls the offense totally, and that's something I try to do. Just know the offense inside and out.
We will work to ensure that the Democratic nominee is successful in defeating Donald Trump in 2020. I can tell you firsthand from having the chance to know the candidates, we will be well served by any one of them, and I’m going to be proud to support whoever she or he is.
Beto O'Rourke - November 2019
America is my country and Paris is my hometown.
Whoever said money can't buy happiness simply didn't know where to go shopping.
History takes time. History makes memory.
Everybody gets so much information all day long that they lose their common sense.
You know I love pot, and I love beer, but I am totally sober, just because it completely stopped working for me.
You know, I like to climb trees and ride bikes and play.
Rose is a rose is a rose is a rose.
My philosophy of dating is to just fart right away.
The idea that vaccines are a primary cause of autism is not as crackpot as some might wish. Autism's 60-fold rise in 30 years matches a tripling of the U.S. vaccine schedule.
Dad often told me, 'My job is to help my boss do his job and make him look good.' That was my dad's objective. Everything about the way he conducted himself was to communicate support for his superiors and respect for his coworkers. The way he dressed was his starting point in that communication.
You don't have to have anything in common with people you've known since you were five. With old friends, you've got your whole life in common.
I inherited my father's insatiable desire to meet all the beautiful girls in the world.
I discovered surfing, which I absolutely fell in love with. That feels good and kind of keeps your body aligned, so does the salt water.
It seems like the chaos of this world is accelerating, but so is the beauty in the consciousness of more and more people.
I know children regress after vaccination because it happened to my own son. Why aren't there any tests out there on the safety of how vaccines are administered in the real world, six at a time? Why have only two of the 36 shots our kids receive been looked at for their relationship to autism?
I am limited by what I can think of to do-my choices are not so great.
I do believe sadly it's going to take some diseases coming back to realize that we need to change and develop vaccines that are safe.
It can be hard for the cute girl. I was blond, cute, broke. I was beat up. I was thrown inside lockers. I was burned with cigarettes. My hair was lit on fire.
I've gotten to work with some wonderful directors and people who have been great teachers to me.
The most important thing you can do as a performer is to be yourself, or be an onstage version of yourself. If you're not being true to yourself, and somebody likes that other version of you, you're kind of stuck.
The answers you get from literature depend on the questions you pose.
Heroes need monsters to establish their heroic credentials. You need something scary to overcome.
Another belief of mine; that everyone else my age is an adult, whereas I am merely in disguise.
I think I may have become an actor to hide from myself. You can escape into a character.
The loss of my father left a great emptiness in my heart.
You don't pay an actor to act. An actor will do that for free because we love to act. You pay an actor to wait.
The genesis of a poem for me is usually a cluster of words. The only good metaphor I can think of is a scientific one: dipping a thread into a supersaturated solution to induce crystal formation. I don't think I solve problems in my poetry; I think I uncover the problems.
Who wants an orange whip? Orange whip? Orange whip? Three orange whips.
Pitching is 80% of the game and the other half is hitting and fielding.
I don't get upset over things I can control, because if I can control them there's no sense in getting upset. And I don't get upset over things I can't control, because if I can't control them there's no sense in getting upset.
I've had a good life. Enough happiness, enough success.
I think all of us create our own miracles.
A voice is a human gift; it should be cherished and used, to utter fully human speech as possible. Powerlessness and silence go together.
