"Democrats, you know, want to identify with and relate to what you're feeling, what you've been bummed out about, where your head is at."

“Give me the luxuries of life and I will willingly do without the necessities.”

“I got everybody on my side through comedy.”

“It is fundamentally crazy to build wind farms out at sea. But it works!”

“People were destined for one another; that's the romantic idea that young girls have, and I guess part of me still believes it.”

“I am ashamed of anyone who has eyes and still can't see.”

Source : Kathryn Lasky (2016). “The Journey (Guardians of Ga’Hoole, Book 2)”, p.22, HarperCollins UK

“In 1998 Harry Reid and I had a very close race. It was less than a tenth of a percentage point. We had a reasonable recount. There were a lot of things that I could have pursued at the time, but I just felt that at the time that I should have, you know, conceded the race.”

Source : "Sen. John Ensign on the Senate's Wild First Day". "The Hannity & Colmes Show", www.realclearpolitics.com. January 6, 2009.

“While we only look at Nature it is fair to say that Autumn is the end of the year; but it is still more true that Autumn is the beginning of the year.... Autumn is the time when in fact the leaves bud. Leaves wither because winter begins; but they also wither because spring is already beginning, because new buds are being made, as tiny as percussion caps out of which the spring will crack.... It is only an optical illusion that my flowers die in autumn; for in reality they are born.”

“I accept extinction as best explaining disjoined species. I see that the same cause must have reduced many species of great range to small, and that it may have reduced large genera to so small, and of families.”