Whatever was the conduct of England, I am equally arraigned.

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.

We reign over the united kingdom of time and eternity

The only thing to know is how to use your neuroses.

True penance consists in regretting without ceasing the faults of the past, and in firmly resolving to never again commit that which is so deplorable.

In a budget, how important is art versus music versus athletics versus computer programming? At the end of the day, some of those trade-offs will be made politically.

Microsoft went into orbit because it had a booster rocket attached to it called IBM.

More of the same will just produce more of the same - less competitiveness, less growth, fewer jobs.

I still get nervous when I have a lot of makeup on, a big hairdo, and a dress.

At eighteen the heart shoots like a pebble from a slingshot and the head doesn't sit on the shoulder.

Ridicule has always been the enemy of enthusiasm, and the only worthy opponent to ridicule is success.

It is better, I think, to grab at the stars than to sit flustered because you know you cannot reach them.