"I'm not a believer that you should set quotas for these things, because I think what happens is no matter how qualified the woman is who gets the job, people will say she [Hillary Clinton] shouldn't have gotten it. She only got it because she's a woman. That is the problem with quotas."

“The trouble with American History is that you don't remember it, and why should you? Nobody does.”

“The clouds roll on. Silent as sleepwalkers the clouds keep coming from infinity bank behind bank and line after line, and change colors on the earth.”

Source : Rolf Jacobsen, Roger Greenwald (2002). “North in the World: Selected Poems of Rolf Jacobsen, A Bilingual Edition”, p.9, University of Chicago Press

“I hear much of people's calling out to punish the guilty, but very few are concerned to clear the innocent.”

Source : Daniel Defoe, James T. Boulton (1975). “Selected Writings of Daniel Defoe”, p.166, CUP Archive

“Every few years, I go back into all the songs and I update them so that it never sounds like an oldies show. If you come to the shows, they're full of muscle. 'Copacabana' sounds like it could have been released yesterday.”

“I started racing myself and once you get bitten by that bug you really are hooked.”

“The one good thing about not seeing you is that I can write you letters.”

Source : Svetlana Alliluyeva (2016). “Twenty Letters to a Friend: A Memoir”, p.7, HarperCollins

“Courtesy, modesty, good manners, conformity to definite ethical standards are universal, but what constitutes courtesy, modesty, good manners, and definite ethical standards is not universal. It is instructive to know that standards differ in the most unexpected ways”

Source : Foreword to "Coming of Age in Samoa" by Margaret Mead, 1928.

“Two-thirds of a century after [The Road to Serfdom] got written, hindsight confirms how inaccurate its innuendo about the future turned out to be.”