Good governance with good intentions is the hallmark of our government. Implementation with integrity is our core passion.

The companies that work are the ones that people really care about and have a vision for the world so do something you like.

A Conservative Government is an organized hypocrisy.

The great fun in my life has been getting up every morning and rushing to the typewriter because some new idea has hit me.

It doesn’t matter if you want to be a teacher, an astronaut, or a reggaeton singer, you need to study.

How can we help President Obama?

Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful.

Don’t be a writer; it’s a terrible way to live your life. There’s nothing to be gained from it but poverty and obscurity and solitude. So if you have a taste for all those things, which means that you really are burning to do it, then go ahead and do it. But don’t expect anything from anybody.

I want to be an artist, an actress with integrity, and that includes all kinds of parts.

Thirty-three-years-old, still creating art. It’s rage, it’s creativity, it’s pain, it’s hurt, but it’s the opportunity to still have my voice get out there through music.

The people you choose to have around you make all the difference. My family and close friends keep me grounded. You have to have a mind of your own and a strong head on your shoulders. Cricket is the most important thing to me, so the rest of it pales in comparison.

We are a forward-looking people, and we must have a forward-looking government.

The Chinese government wants me to say that for many centuries Tibet has been part of China. Even if I make that statement, many people would just laugh. And my statement will not change past history. History is history.

Moral authority comes from following universal and timeless principles like honesty, integrity, treating people with respect.

Red is such an interesting color to correlate with emotion, because it’s on both ends of the spectrum. On one end you have happiness, falling in love, infatuation with someone, passion, all that. On the other end, you’ve got obsession, jealousy, danger, fear, anger and frustration.

One way to make sure crime doesn’t pay would be to let the government run it.

I believe that in every country the people themselves are more peaceably and liberally inclined than their governments.

Even if the politics needed doesn’t exist today, we still need to use our voices to make sure that the people in power are focused on the right things. Because this is a democracy, and in a democracy, people are the ones who run the country.

Control thy passions lest they take vengence on thee.

After getting out of the service and going into baseball I never wanted to do anything else.

A dictatorship would be a heck of a lot easier, there’s no question about it.

It is a fact often observed, that men have written good verses under the inspiration of passion, who cannot write well under other circumstances.

As fire when thrown into water is cooled down and put out, so also a false accusation when brought against a man of the purest and holiest character, boils over and is at once dissipated, and vanishes and threats of heaven and sea, himself standing unmoved.

Let’s face it. Umpiring is not an easy or happy way to make a living. In the abuse they suffer, and the pay they get for it, you see an imbalance that can only be explained by their need to stay close to a game they can’t resist.

To give real service you must add something which cannot be bought or measured with money, and that is sincerity and integrity.

Men are rather reasoning than reasonable animals, for the most part governed by the impulse of passion.

And I have no doubt that every new example will succeed, as every past one has done, in showing that religion and Government will both exist in greater purity, the less they are mixed together.

A man dies when he refuses to stand up for that which is right. A man dies when he refuses to stand up for justice. A man dies when he refuses to take a stand for that which is true.

The joy and love that I get from playing football are unbelievable. It is such a feeling that I want to give everything that I have got. I just enjoy it, I am living a life that I never even dreamt of.

I would say that jazz is my own language.

I think the notion that we have all the democracy that money can buy strays so far from what our democracy is supposed to be.

If we can but prevent the government from wasting the labours of the people, under the pretence of taking care of them, they must become happy.

The republican is the only form of government which is not eternally at open or secret war with the rights of mankind.

My own brain is to me the most unaccountable of machinery – always buzzing, humming, soaring roaring diving, and then buried in mud. And why? What’s this passion for?

In my opinion eight years as president is enough and sometimes too much for any man to serve in that capacity.

You must stay drunk on writing so reality cannot destroy you.

I am not bound to win, but I am bound to be true. I am not bound to succeed, but I am bound to live by the light that I have. I must stand with anybody that stands right, and stand with him while he is right, and part with him when he goes wrong.

If you wish to be a writer, write.

Just like every person who works for Dortmund is a fan of the club, it was the same at Mainz. When I was a player there, we had 800 supporters on rainy Saturday afternoons, and if we died, no one would notice or come to our funeral. But we loved the club, and we have this same feeling at Dortmund.

There will be no end to the troubles of states, or of humanity itself, till philosophers become kings in this world, or till those we now call kings and rulers really and truly become philosophers, and political power and philosophy thus come into the same hands.

Democracy is when the indigent, and not the men of property, are the rulers.

If people lose faith in their government, the result is the same whether or not the loss of confidence is justified.

Democracy means government by the uneducated, while aristocracy means government by the badly educated.

I’m gonna be making records anyway, even if I had to sell ‚em out of the trunk of my car. I’m that kind of musician and singer.

I have an immense amount of respect for acting. I’ve always loved movies and was always fascinated by movie-making. But to become an actor, I wanted to commit myself.

All government, of course, is against liberty.

Do what you love. Know your own bone; gnaw at it, bury it, unearth it, and gnaw it still.

Happy is he who still loves something he loved in the nursery: He has not been broken in two by time; he is not two men, but one, and he has saved not only his soul but his life.

However many holy words you read, however many you speak, what good will they do you if you do not act on upon them?

If Tyranny and Oppression come to this land, it will be in the guise of fighting a foreign enemy.

Syntax, my lad. It has been restored to the highest place in the republic.

It is a way to take people’s wealth from them without having to openly raise taxes. Inflation is the most universal tax of all.

I thought that I wrote songs and wrote music, and that was sort of what I thought I was best at doing. And because nobody else was ever doing my songs, I felt – you know, I had to go out and do them.

There’s one way to find out if a man is honest – ask him. If he says, ‚Yes,‘ you know he is a crook.

If a poet is anybody, he is somebody to whom things made matter very little – somebody who is obsessed by Making.

May I kiss you then? On this miserable paper? I might as well open the window and kiss the night air.

The best minds are not in government. If any were, business would steal them away.

A President needs political understanding to run the government, but he may be elected without it.

I didn’t have nothin‘ going for me… school, home… until I found something I loved, which was music, and that changed everything.

Obamacare sucks, it can’t be fixed.

The United States Constitution has proved itself the most marvelously elastic compilation of rules of government ever written.