Is it no imputation to be arraigned before this House, in which I have sat forty years, and to have my name transmitted to posterity with disgrace and infamy?

It is but refusing to gratify an unreasonable or an insolent demand, and up starts a patriot.

Let sleeping dogs lie.

All those men have their price.

[Read] anything but history,.. for history must be false.

The very idea of true patriotism is lost, and the term has been prostituted to the very worst of purposes. A patriot, sir! Why, patriots spring up like mushrooms!

I took the right sow by the ear.

I will not attempt to deny the reasonableness and necessity of a party war; but in carrying on that war all principles and rules of justice should not be departed from.

Every man has his price.

No expense has been incurred but what has been approved of and provided for by Parliament.

Persons extremely reserved are like old enamelled watches, which had painted covers, that hindered your seeing what o'clock it was.

If journalism is the first draft of history, then talk radio provides an early glimpse into how the meaning of political events will be spun for ideological and partisan purposes.

Maturity is the ability to live in peace with that which we cannot change.

If something is going on in my life, it winds up getting into my strip.

Don't do anything that you're already not great at doing.

I've learned not to be as maniacal as I used to be.

Any kind of music can be written badly and it can be written wonderfully. I admire a top performer in any field.

I'll never give up my Dior mascara.

We who are quotatious are never truly alone, but always hear the cheerful flow of remarks made by dead writers so much more intelligent than we.

Some people think that poor people are lazy. Actually, it takes a lot of work to survive when you are dirt-poor.

...(I)ndividual selfhood is expressed in the self's capacity for self-transcendence and not in its rational capacity for conceptual and analytic procedures.