In 20 years I had sold more records for RCA than any artist except Elvis Presley.
The U.S. embargo imposed on Nicaragua, rather than weakening the Sandinistas, actually maintained them in power.
Let us consider the glorious Saint Paul: it seems that no other name fell from his lips than that of Jesus, because the name of Jesus was fixed and embedded in his heart.
We emerged from the events of September 11 more steadfast in our beliefs, more courageous in our actions and more determined to protect our values than ever before.
When I was a kid, people called me Emily rather than Esperanza, even though my full name is Esperanza Emily Spalding.
When I got recognized as a writer, when I got the Emmy, I was more excited than the Emmys I had gotten as an actor.
A novel should be an experience and convey an emotional truth rather than arguments.
I would rather have a nod from an American, than a snuff-box from an emperor.
Manufacturing capacity is not a rigid level against which one bounces. When you are dealing with a world economy, with a flexibility to employ production facilities other than one's own, then the concept of capacity is vaguer.
There are few ways in which a man can be more innocently employed than in getting money.
It is an unfortunate human failing that a full pocketbook often groans more loudly than an empty stomach.
From the takeover of Detroit and the failed stimulus packages to the enactment of Obamacare, the president and congressional Democrats chose to use Americas economic crisis as an excuse to expand government rather than as an opportunity to responsibly shrink it.
For a show, I can bear a little longer than 45 minutes, not including encores.
As his vice president for eight years, I learned more from Ronald Reagan than from anyone I encountered in all my years of public life.
Corruption is worse than prostitution. The latter might endanger the morals of an individual, the former invariably endangers the morals of the entire country.
No testimony is sufficient to establish a miracle, unless the testimony be of such a kind, that its falsehood would be more miraculous than the fact which it endeavors to establish.
Polygamy: An endeavour to get more out of life than there is in it.
It is no less the duty of the minority than a majority to endeavour to defend the country.
Endurance is nobler than strength, and patience than beauty.
The manner in which one endures what must be endured is more important than the thing that must be endured.
