Influence comes out of the work that you've done and the things you've stood for. Influence and power shouldn't be given to just anybody who wants them.

We must have government, but we must watch them like a hawk.

Never feel self-pity, the most destructive emotion there is. How awful to caught up in the terrible squirrel cage of self.

The only people who would be in government are those who care more about people than they do about power.

If there is one thing the past years have taught us, it is the importance of a keen and high sense of honor in those who handle our governmental affairs.

When you're old, everything you do is sort of a miracle.

Economics is not a science, in the sense that a policy can be repeatedly applied under similar conditions and will repeatedly produce similar results.

Party organization matters. When the door of a smoke-filled room is closed, there's hardly ever a woman inside.

The business of government is justice.

I have come to believe that one thing people cannot bear is a sense of injustice. Poverty, cold, even hunger are more bearable than injustice.

Everyone in America seems to be joining an organization of some kind, and in Congress one hears from them all.

Sound and light are two different things, But it's more than just that, isn't it?

My life is one long obstacle course with me as the chief obstacle.

There is no demand for women engineers, as such, as there are for women doctors; but there's always a demand for anyone who can do a good piece of work.

Shagga son of Dolf likes this not. Shagga will go with the boyman, and if the boyman lies, Shagga will chop off his manhood-" "-and feed it to the goats, yes," Tyrion said wearily.

I'm still interested in perfecting whatever talents I have and continuing to grow as an actor and continuing to be useful to the telling of the story.

There are two ways of looking at the talking filibuster. My way is as a form of unanimous consent.

Grief is characterized much more by waves of feeling that lessen and reoccur, it's less like stages and more like different states of feeling.

Make as many friends as you can, but don't build your life on them alone. It's an unstable foundation.

I enjoy the fact that we have these mobile comics now, which are sort of a cross between a comic book and an animated cartoon.

Stay Hungry. Stay Foolish. And I have always wished that for myself. And now, as you graduate to begin anew, I wish that for you.