"These are 8- and 12-year-old kids. It doesn't matter how they got here. It is time to show a little compassion"

“I'm often at odds with my colleagues, but I've managed to get legislation passed which will not even be attempted in other states. Rather than use the word "cooperate," I'll say there's kind of a peaceful coexistence, a wary watching of each other. I'm very courteous and polite, and people allow me to be. Some people have applied the term charming to me. I don't use that term unless I'm the snake charmer and they're the snake.”

Source : "The Maverick of Omaha". Interview With Michael Beckel, www.motherjones.com. January 5, 2006.

“But whenever history is in the making, there's some kind of intangible feeling.”

Source : Interview with Guitar.com, www.novoselic.com.

“Reading allows me to recharge my batteries.”

“Modernist discourse [...] incorporates semantic devices - such as the labeling of theism as 'religion' and naturalism as 'science' - that work to prevent a dangerous debate over fundamental assumptions from breaking out in the open.”

Source : Phillip E. Johnson (1998). “Reason in the Balance: The Case Against Naturalism in Science, Law & Education”, p.45, InterVarsity Press

“The music has generated all the techniques I use. When I sit down to learn to play something . . . it is not because I want to master a technique. It is because I want to hear what an idea sounds like.”

“When Roosevelt came along, I approved of his program, generally. I figured an economic system should work for people, not vice versa.”

“There are some defeats more triumphant than victories.”

Source : Michel de Montaigne, William Hazlitt (1845). “The Works of Michael de Montaigne: Comprising His Essays, Letters, Journey Through Germany and Italy. With Notes from All the Commentators, Biographical and Bibliographical Notices, &c. &c”, p.92

“I want to do some fiction writing, I've had some pretty good luck with short stories, I'd like to do a couple of larger things.”