"The French have never produced a great philosopher. Great wine maybe, but no great philosophers."

“I want to make clear only that words are not the things spoken about, and that there is no such thing as an object in absolute isolation.”

“If I can be writing, I can take a certain amount of control when so much around me is upsetting.”

“Doesn't matter if the glass is half-empty or half-full. All that matters is that you are the one pouring the water.”

“I hope that the residents of my current district - from Quincy to Provincetown and the Islands - know that their well-being is my primary concern and nothing changes that.”

Source : "Keating switch avoids Mass. duel" by Alex Isenstadt, www.politico.com. November 07, 2011.

“If I'm going to see my mom, I'm going to church!”

Source : "Denzel Washington on Equalizer: 'We had Navy Seals train us'". Interview with Steve Rose, www.theguardian.com. September 25, 2014.

“A demagogue is a person with whom we disagree as to which gang should mismanage the country.”

Source : Quoted in E Anthony O Rare Don Marquis (1962), ch.11.

“Greed is a basic part of animal nature. Being against it is like being against breathing or eating. It means nothing.”

“To die for the racists is lighter than a feather, but to die for the people is heavier than any mountain and deeper than any sea.”