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- I can think of nothing more boring for the American people than to have to sit in their living rooms for a whole half hour looking at my face on their television screens.
- Dwight David Eisenhower
- I never did give anybody hell. I just told the truth and they thought it was hell.
- Harry S Truman (1884 - 1972)
- Marriage is a bribe to make a housekeeper think she's a householder.
- Thornton Wilder (1897 - 1975)
- Judge: a law student who marks his own papers.
- H. L. Mencken (1880 - 1956)
- An ideal wife is one who remains faithful to you but tries to be just as charming as if she weren't.
- Sacha Guitry (1885 - 1957)
- I honestly believe that in my lifetime we will see a country once again governed by Christians...and Christian values. What Christians have got to do is take back this country, one precinct at a time, one neighborhood at a time, and one state at a time.
- Ralph Reed, Executive Director, the Christian Coalition
- Obviously no country can claim a special place in God's heart, yet we are better as a people because He has a special place in ours...I want to thank you for helping America, as Christ ordained, to be a light unto the world...
- President George Bush, commending the National Religious Broadcasters for their support in the war to drive Iraq from Kuwait
- Instead of conceiving of society as something established for the defense of individual rights, fair contracts, and due process of law, we are invited to see it in terms of the biblical vision. This way of living, thinking, and acting where autonomy and related rights take priority has seriously jeopardized the meaning and values of all institutions in our society.
- Detroit Archbishop Adam J. Maida, in a speech to Catholic judges including Rehnquist, Scalia, Kennedy, and O'Connor
- An ambassador is an honest man sent abroad to lie for his country.
- Sir Henry Wotton
- Democracy means government by discussion, but it is only effective if you can stop people talking.
- Clement Richard Atlee, British prime minister (1945-1951)
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